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OK, let's talk about practically
what does it mean for wives? 

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OK, so we I'm going to speak to 
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handles what we as women want to
make us feel loved. 

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So just to go back to that 
Scripture in Genesis 2 verse 24.

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Therefore shall a man leave his 
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cleave unto his wife and they 
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So this covers that first 
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She wants you to be close. 
So cleave in Hebrew means it's 

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to cling, hold, keep close. 
We want you to be close. 

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You know, God is love and when 
we close to God, he overwhelms 

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us with his love. 
And in the same way we want you 

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to be close. 
Love can't grow in this 

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distance. 
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that dance if there's distance 
between us because then we can't

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with distance. 
Love can't grow. 

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It can't challenge, it can't be 
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So we want that closeness. 
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physical closeness the whole 
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That is impossible. 
I'm talking about emotional 

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closeness, a spiritual 
closeness. 

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I want to know that he likes me 
and he wants to be my friend and

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his preference would be to be 
with me, you know? 

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And I want him to be inclusive, 
not be exclusive. 

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So we as women want face to face
down men most of all, one 

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shoulder to shoulder time. 
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So we need to, we need to know 
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So Aiden knows that if he comes 
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usually makes coffee for us and 
we have just a bit of just 

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catching up time. 
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really authentic and he wants to
sit with me and yeah, my day and

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we can discuss things. 
I don't need hours of closeness.

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We just want that face to face. 
Look at me. 

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Look. 
Look at me in the eyes and let's

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communicate, because 
communication is a big thing in 

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marriages. 
The other thing, Yeah, don't 

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show us close closeness just 
before bedtime. 

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It's not going to go well. 
Go down the ball. 

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It's the atmosphere you create 
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It's the closeness. 
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The second one is she wants you 
to open up to her. 

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We want you to be open to us. 
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one for guys because they don't 
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about emotions and feelings. 
But it's our way of feeling 

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connected to you and we want to 
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So if I ask Aiden who just who, 
who just phoned you, it's not 

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that I want to, I don't trust 
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him. 
I just want to feel connected. 

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I want to be on the same page. 
We often read one another's 

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WhatsApp messages, you know, 
because there's no time to talk.

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And then we catch up on things 
through that. 

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But it's, it's just openness. 
There's no secrets between us. 

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So communication is, is a very 
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feel you have secrets or you're 
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it affects, it affects our, our 
body, mind and soul and our 

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spirits feel crushed. 
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crushed, our bodies are 
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So it affects a lot for us when 
we feel we excluded and you 

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keeping things secret. 
So even be open, communicate, be

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vulnerable. 
Even when you mess up, be 

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vulnerable when we mess up, tell
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bitterness towards us. 
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into harshness and. 
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The way in which a husband is 
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if something is wrong, I'll let 
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So if I'm not saying anything, 
we're all good. 

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But the way the wife is wired is
she just wants the relationship 

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to be kept up to date. 
So tell me that everything's OK,

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Like, let's keep talking because
I just want to hear it. 

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But we've got to know that 
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ways. 
And her husband is inclined to 

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say, well, I'll speak, I'll let 
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place. 
But if you hear nothing from me,

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just take it as a thumbs up. 
And the wife is like, eh, no, I 

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just want to. 
We just want to talk about 

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things like we're going to keep 
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stay close. 
The next one is she wants you to

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listen now. 
I don't have you guys have seen 

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this funny video clip of this 
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nail in her head, a big nail, 
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fake. 
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having a conversation and she's 
trying to tell her husband that 

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she's got this terrible 
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It's all over and and he's 
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just, you know, pull the nail 
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like, can I just you know, it's 
like stop fixing me. 

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You always want to fix me. 
Just listen, I've got this 

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headache and all my sweaters are
nicked and I it's the funniest 

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video clip but what she is 
trying it at the end he just 

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hugs and so I understand, I 
understand and the nails still 

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in my head, but what is. 
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into his eyes like. 
It's really funny when you 

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Cliff, all she wanted was just 
just hear me. 

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Just listen. 
Don't try and fix me all the 

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time. 
Just listen. 

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You must understand that that 
the husband reflects Christ and 

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we as well. 
We, we the church, and just as 

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the church put all his burdens 
on to Jesus, we want to do the 

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same with our husbands. 
We want to just put our burden 

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on to you and we just want you 
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us. 
We don't always need all the 

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fixing. 
Don't tell us. 

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Stop crying. 
Just why are you crying so much?

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You're always crying. 
Just listen. 

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Just here. 
Just give us an ear and show us 

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empathy. 
Then we feel loved. 

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She wants you to say I'm sorry. 
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The blue in the pink language 
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we're sorry, we feel like we 
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We want to bring peace in the 
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sorry, they're scared to say 
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they're admitting to guilt first
of all, and that they might lose

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respect or give you you more 
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And it's not like that, 
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sorry, we feel like you're 
building that bridge again. 

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You, you building towards us to 
connect again, to have peace 

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again in the house. 
Please, are you sorry? 

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You know in the Proverbs 15 
verse one, it says a gentle 

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answer turns away rough, but a 
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And in Colossians 3 verse 19 it 
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and do not be harsh with him. 
There's a reason why I can't put

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this in the Bible. 
He knows that As's wives cannot 

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handle harshness. 
We can still handle it from 

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other people, but from our 
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devastates our spirits. 
And I think it's in the Bible as

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well, because God knows that men
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so we, I think there's another 
translation that they use 

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instead of harshness. 
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bitterness comes from unmet 
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you know, and if it doesn't get 
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that just builds up with hurt 
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And then you start to snap and 
you, you say silly things to one

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another that actually the 
underlying thing is this 

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reservoir of hurt feelings 
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with. 
So speak easily, keep the peace.

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And when something bothers you, 
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immediately so it can be dealt 
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And it's not something that 
builds up and it builds up in 

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your loss. 
So be kind, be gentle, keep the 

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peace. 
And the next one is we want, she

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wants to know that you are 
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You know that when Aiden spoke 
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risks, that is commitment. 
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So like Adrian now just said, 
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It's not that we're asking for 
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We're asking for reassurance. 
That's what we want. 

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We know or we think sometimes 
you love us that reassure us, 

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reassure us that we are the only
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The grass is not always green on
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We settled so many couples that 
when his infidelity and the 

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husband of love moves away just 
a year later, not even a year 

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later, that spouse wants to come
back and then it's sometimes too

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late. 
It's not it's it's really not 

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green on the other side. 
Stay committed, stay loyal, stay

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true in your covenant in action 
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The last one is she wants you to
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We want you to honor and cherish
US1 Peter 3 verse 7. 

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It says live in an understanding
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carries on saying and so and 
show her honor or respect as a 

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fellow heir of the grace of life
so that your prayers will not be

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hindered. 
So just maybe, maybe for some of

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you, if you feel like your 
praise have been hindered, maybe

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you are not honoring your wife 
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honour her. 
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your wife, be proud of her so 
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Speak well of her. 
Never embarrass her in public or

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at home. 
Teach your children to respect 

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her. 
Always stand by her side and 

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back her in front of your kids. 
Never go go against her in front

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of your kids. 
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birthdays, all those things. 
It's just part of showing honor 

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and and to cherish her. 
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You know you can come home and 
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all she wants is that 5 minutes 
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So know what makes her tick. 
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to mention, never ever forget to
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We love a lot. 
We love at one another, we love 

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together. 
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We take God and the things of 
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But you we need to love more 
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We need to see the fun in life 
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have fun together. 
And here's is what I actually 

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picked up about laughters. 
Laughter decreases stress 

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hormones and increases immune 
cells and effect in and 

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infection fighting antibodies, 
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to disease. 
It even lowers blood pressure. 

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How's that love? 
Love that triggers the release 

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of endorphins, the body's 
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Endorphins promotes an overall 
sense of well-being and can even

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temporarily relieve pain. 
How good is God that he created 

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us like that? 
So you don't take it too serious

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life, you know, Have fun 
together, discover one another 

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again, discover your dreams 
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It's brilliant. 
I mean, just that thing of 

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cherishing your wife and, and 
and expressing their like just 

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the simplicity of it. 
As a husband, if you could take 

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whatever time during the course 
of the day, early afternoon, if 

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I send an SMS to Internet, just 
send her a message saying yes, 

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I'm looking forward to seeing it
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What that does for her. 
And I'm not doing it as like 

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formula. 
It's just like I think about it.

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I mean, tensional with my words 
that she knows that I want to be

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with her and that we are 
together and that we'll always 

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be together. 
And it's almost like you develop

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a covenant, a language where 
you're expressing these things 

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in a way that it's just clear to
her that's what what our wives 

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need. 
Let me speak to the wives in 

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terms of husbands and what 
husbands want and look for. 

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He wants you to admire his 
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If I had to, from my 
perspective, say what has helped

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our marriage immensely is that 
Antonette is my biggest fan. 

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She's my cheerleader. 
She just says she's great with 

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pom poms. 
Brilliant, but I just know 

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she's, you know, like when 
you've got someone on the side 

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of the field that's just always 
reaching for you. 

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That's how I feel she is with 
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So whatever the efforts of the 
husband is as a wife, be the 

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cheerleader and and let your 
husband know he wants to desire 

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to work and to achieve. 
But at the same time, you got to

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show interest in that. 
You got to show appreciation for

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it. 
Show it. 

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The second thing is he wants you
to appreciate his protection and

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provision. 
You know, sometimes you need to 

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just appreciate a husband's 
desire to provide and to protect

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because then we so quick to say,
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should be. 
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But man, if the husband's waking
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in his car, going to work, 
there's a desire for him to 

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provide. 
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but then focus on his desire to 
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that like just I love the fact 
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making things work. 
Let him know that the third one,

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he wants you to align, to lead, 
to give him the space to 

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exercise authority. 
Don't undermine a husband's 

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authority with what can only be 
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I know better. 
Allow the husband to lead, 

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especially if he uses Jesus as 
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going to lead in a way that is 
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you're going to want to contest.
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insight. 
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that I think comes up very often
because men have insight, women 

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have intuition and they're both 
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given us, but don't ever allow 
your intuition as a wife to over

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shadow your husband's insight. 
So like the the flip side for a 

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wife is I want to just sit down 
with my husband and I just want 

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to talk and I want to kind of 
just express the fact that I'm 

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struggling with something or and
don't fix me. 

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Please don't fix me. 
Just listen. 

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The husband on the other side is
wired in a way where he wants to

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apply himself. 
He's got insight, so let me 

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apply it. 
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space to that, there's kind of 
this sense of, well, I've got 

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this gut feel, this intuition 
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that. 
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our marriage we went through 
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like 6 years, but six months of 
Anthony could come to me 

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regularly and ask so such and 
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What do you think? 
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then later on I'll find out 
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I'm like, OK. 
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come and ask me a different 
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insight and she would go with 
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when we met. 
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She's strong and a little bit of
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I'm giving my insight. 
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something else. 
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quieter and the levels of 
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and she didn't even know it, but
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I was like, man, I'm giving you 
my insight, but you're not 

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taking it and we need to just 
sit down and I need to explain 

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to the babe, I don't know why 
you keep coming me to with 

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coming to me with these things 
because like, I think you're 

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asking for my advice. 
I give it and then you don't 

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take it. 
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it, then rather than ask me 
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me, but sometimes the intuition 
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nature that you, you just it 
overshadows the inside of your 

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husband. 
Your husband's been gifted with 

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insight and analytical, 
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Let's work things out because 
I'm a fixer and, and, and the 

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wife is more well, I got a gut 
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But don't, don't let your 
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husband's insight. 
Allow his insight to set order 

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and give a direction for your 
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Your husband wants you to be 
around until it said it like a 

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wife wants face to FaceTime. 
So look at me in the eye face to

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face. 
A husband wants shoulder to 

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shoulder time. 
It's like he wants you to be 

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close. 
He just doesn't want you to talk

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just so why are the talking? 
Just sit. 

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So sit. 
Can we just watch TV? 

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Can we just, can we just sit? 
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around, but that's all. 
There's been times where like, 

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I'll, I'll be like multitasking 
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life. 
So I'll have earphones and I'm 

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listening to something, but I'm 
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And so I'm like, hey, baby, like
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Yeah. 
And then she's sitting and I'm 

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like, well, now we've got time 
earphones in. 

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Like, dude, seriously, Because 
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Now we we have time, kids are in
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And now we can't talk. 
It's like we let's use this 

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time. 
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But sometimes you just got to 
like there's a bit of give and 

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take. 
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you know, we got to talk and 
we're going to have the face to 

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face. 
But allow your husband also just

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shoulder time. 
It's OK. 

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Let's just be so why about 
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If you allow that atmosphere, 
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You'll get your face to 
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He wants you to aspire to 
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Now we've got to know that 
physically when a wife is not up

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to things and there's a big no. 
But for a husband, that's 

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physical disrespect. 
So there's there's got to be a 

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sense of wives also initiating 
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I think it is a space where men 
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time. 
But for a, for a man to know, 

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like my wife, she wants me like 
she digs me, She wants to spend 

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time with me in that intimate 
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It's healthy. 
It's just good for your 

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marriage, good for a husband's 
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Because then it's not just about
this is just my needs and I want

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to spend time with you in this 
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actually he wants you to want 

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it. 
He wants you to be in a space 

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where you aspire to that 
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You know, wife was kind of like,
we need to be close. 

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We need to have that closeness, 
like kind of the atmosphere 

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through the day, the boiling of 
the water and the kettle so that

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we can be intimate. 
A husband finds closeness in the

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intimacy. 
Because it's like the switch and

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I said that we don't need to 
have the closeness to be 

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intimate, but in being intimate,
we found the closeness and know 

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that about your husband. 
So don't let intimacy be an area

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where disrespect starts to flow.
And if you ever feel like I'm, 

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I'm just saying yes out of duty 
or obligation, then let that 

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obligation be limited to the 
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What once you've decided and 
then be in and enjoy the moment 

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together because that intimacy 
is important for the husband to 

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feel like man. 
This is an area where as far as 

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respect is concerned, my wife 
and I are on the same page and 

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there's a satisfaction that I 
can see she's enjoying and I'm 

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being satisfied through this. 
But that's an area of respect 

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that sometimes can be completely
disempowering for a husband to 

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the point where it just leads to
a whole bunch of unnecessary 

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issues. 
You know, when I've sat with 

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people who have been unfaithful 
and specifically men, it's a 

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game, a respect issue, not a 
last issue. 

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I mean, it's like obvious. 
We think, oh, this guy is just 

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he's, he's had a moment of 
weakness or multiple moments of 

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weakness and to the point where 
he's just rebellious and he's 

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he's neglected his wife and his 
run off with someone. 

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But think about it. 
Think about what it's like to be

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disrespected at home, but to be 
highly respected by your 

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secretary because your secretary
is like, man, you are the bee's 

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niece. 
You are an amazing, you're such 

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an incredible leader. 
I love the way you deal with 

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people. 
You've got such incredible 

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business acumen. 
Those kind of comments, the 

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guy's like, hey, I'm respected 
here, completely disrespected at

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home. 
But yeah, I'm respected very 

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often. 
Infidelity is actually not a 

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last issue. 
That's a respect issue when it's

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by the husband. 
We got to know how important 

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these things are because that's 
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So he goes in that direction. 
I'm not saying lust is not part 

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of it at all, but the driving 
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I'm disrespected at home. 
My wife doesn't respect me, but 

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this lady, she's my fat, she's a
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And that's where the weakness 
because my tank is empty here, 

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but it's been full year and 
infidelity ensues. 

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So we've got to be really, 
really conscious of this and 

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know just how important it is. 
So if we look at love and 

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respect in lots of eternity, 
we've got to know that we're not

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just looking at an ordered 
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We want a renewed pattern. 
God must renew this pattern for 

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us and Jesus needs to be the 
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This quote of Amazon Igrich is 
the guy that writes their book 

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on love and respect is 
Ultimately you practice love or 

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respect because beyond your 
spouse, you see Jesus Christ and

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you envision a moment when you 
will be standing before Him at 

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the final judgment, realizing 
that your marriage was really a 

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tool and a test to deepen and 
demonstrate your love and your 

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reverence for your Lord. 
So when we bring our marriages 

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under our relationship with 
Jesus and we know that our 

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relationship with Jesus is one 
of loving him and having 

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absolute respect and reverence 
for Him, we stand in awe of who 

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He is. 
Then we know that when we allow 

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that reality to start to find 
its way into our marriages, that

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it's representing more of our 
relationship with Jesus than 

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anything else. 
And for that reason, and because

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God's made it so plain, we 
submit ourselves to His leading 

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and to His guiding, and that he 
has said husbands must love 

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their wives, wives must respect 
their husbands. 

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We can't afford not to do it. 
We got to give ourselves to it.