I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife Karen. Welcome to marriage today podcast. If you're watching

on YouTube, be sure and like and subscribe. And today we're talking about just the importance

of date night establishing special times together as a married couple, which is very, very

important. Karen, now we got married. Of course, we, we almost divorced after several

years, we had a terrible marriage and I played golf all the time, work all the time. Did

not have a prioritized relationship. I mean, golf was first, work was first. When we changed,

when I changed and we began to get our marriage, the way it should be, we established, we really

didn't go out on dates as much because our kids were little, but we established nights

that we were going to be together alone in the house. In other words, we'd put the kids

to bed and we would just prioritize being together and we did that once or twice a week.

But the thing that we did that I remember back on and I want you to tell your perspective

on this, we always had on the calendar, every five or six weeks, we would go, we didn't

have any money. We didn't have any just much discretionary income, but we would drive

an hour, hour and a half to the next town or next city and just rent a cheap hotel room

and just go on their safer couple of days and get my parents to take care of the kids

or get babysitters and we did that and that was the most important thing that we did when

our kids were growing up and I became busier and busier. We had, we always had something

every week, but then we always had something every five or six weeks on the calendar that

was prioritized and those just one or two days alone together like that was incredibly

important. Our lifestyle is so much different than a lot of people where you work from home

most of the time and so you're around me all most of the day and so we do see each other and

we're extremely good about communicating through the phone so we're good at communicating and

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