I just stumbled on this channel. PERFECT timing. After 10 years of marriage and 16 years together, we have become roommates and business partners (we have 3 boys and a business together) God has told me to fight for my marriage... so here I am. Going to binge listen to all your vids!

Thank you for this! It is a caution to all who are married. My husband & I are in a second (me) & third (him) marriage. We are one another's best friend. We deliberately nurture Couple Time in our marriage. We are grateful for love after loss. My husband was a widower when we met. We work hard to have a new start for our marriage after his loss. Blessings to you both for this video! We pray together almost everyday. We pray for others when we pray for ourselves & one another. God is in our marriage! The date night ROCKS in our marriage! I still make him blush! We adore one another. God help us all to nurture our marriages!

I absolutely love marriage today and the naked marriage talk. I have been struggling in my marriage with all of these things as my husband has yet to fully surrender his life to God. My prayer has been for God to create in me a clean heart so that as I grow my husband can see and want the God in me. Plz pray for us Ashley and Dave.

Thank you for your transparency, and honesty. Marriage is a blessing from God and we need to see it that way!

I've tried many times to bring up hard topics for the sake of my marriage. It ends up in him saying I'm just trying to stir things up..or attacking him. Right now I'm just trying to give him over to God and let him do this

Silence is deadly.

I've been listening for years to a huge list of marriage podcasts and sermons and non-Christian and Christian materials. I think I've benefitted from thousands of materials. I'm about to enter into a marriage and we have a wonderful relationship but practicing these things is still very hard. And I think I've finally figured out what (at least for me) we need in these materials that's missing. We need to see the teachers of these messages to demonstrate what they are teaching. And that's really private, but I feel when people say "you gotta talk about it," I draw a bit of a blank. I need SOMEBODY to come on air and say "okay, we had a fight yesterday and we didn't talk about it yet. We're going to talk about it in front of everyone to show you what we do" That would be TREMENDOUSLY helpful. Aside from that I'm so thankful for you guys for what you already made. Thank you!

U guys are just a breath of fresh air 👸🏻🤴🏻💫🌷🙏💖😁☕☕🧁🧁🌮🌮stay blessed

This is so powerful. I praise God for the two of you. Blessings on your relationship and ministry.

Love how you have presented some good truth! I see many long term marriages become "roommate status". It's really sad😢

Loving your series! Thank you!

My husband has put our relationship on the backburner for YEARS!!! I have been open to him about the serious neglect for ever, I have written letters, cried and cried and poured my heart and soul about how painful this is! He is SO CHECKED OUT, work Is more important, chores are more important, basically anything but us. We have talked/yelled 😢 till I’m blue in the face. I have sent him cards thanking him for things, I go out of my way for little things. However, NOW I RESENT HIM, I don’t find him attractive, the pain and hurt I feel has taken over me 😢 I’m soooo easily satisfied…..I’ve told him, just a simple walk with each other, the intention of having coffee together and not allowing work or phone to be SO IMPORTANT!!! Going for a date, e e tc……. We rarely pray together, he is usually tired when he gets home. I have PRAYED AND PRAYED!!!!!! Most of our kids are now adults, no excuses!!! I’m at a loss.

This has blessed me and I am sure it is going to bless my wife , thank you guys !!

Thanks for this. We are in the place where 2 toddlers give us just about zero time together and we have no money for babysitters and so if my parents can make it to our town we're out of luck. It's really hard right now but we're pushing forward.

We did everything together after work with our sons and we shared time and taught them all kinds of things. This was our “date night” every day and we modeled closeness to them and they grew up want the closeness they saw we had. Life is a precious gift and it is made up of time spend together. Share hugs and radiant smiles so you feel loved and so special when you see each other. Thanks for pointing out that it is easy to become so absorbed by things you don’t include each other and drift apart. Remember if you never saw your spouse alive again there are so many things you can never do with them again or say to them and likewise have them share with you. Then the cruel monster regret is there to eat you alive for all the what ifs and i with I had / hadn’t said or done Xxx. This I am glad I didn’t have to experience but most people do so I don’t want you to have that added pain. Loss no matter why is so traumatic and painful. Care for your relationships and grow old as best friends and sweethearts.

These series are a blessing.

Just Subscribed! Also, not sure if you covered it yet, but it would be REALLY amazing to open up the conversation of; Husbands losing their hearts to provision (work) and wives losing their hearts to nurturing (children.) This is honestly an AMAZING function of God's design in marriage, yet oftentimes, unchecked tends to become the predominant negative driving force OF marriage instead of a foundational aspect of it.

Ok so it looks like I've been following this channel for a while. Not sure what makes today any different, but this is literally my 3rd video listening to you guys and I love it. Me and my Husband are coming up on 3 years of marriage, and I must say that it has been challenging but so very worth it. God has brought us together as a unit for a time as this, especially since we both are being used by Him to be the example in our family of how a Godly, overcoming, purposefilled marriage should look like, since we both come from broken, toxic and dysfunctional homes. This channel is amazing and I love the topics you all discuss. I will defenitely be listening/watching more, and look forward to passing along this channel to my other married friends.

Awesome words and powerful and inspiring. Thanks much and God richest blessings on you channel.

This episode is a breath of fresh air it made me grin. Thank you two.

Make laughter the soundtrack of your marriage. Amazing

Wow i enjoyed this!!thats so true..i'm married and i thank God for a wonderful husband yes we've had rough days but through it all we learned and it made us stronger and funny thing is when me and hussy gets wrong our connectio gets even stronger!but it also breaks my heart that many couples dont fight for their marriage.. my husband is my bff😊God bless !

SPOT ON!, EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH MY MARRIAGE,MY WIFE HAS COMPLETELY DIS-CONNECTED . I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RECONNECT.

This is wonderful . Thank you for your teaching !!!

You guys are awesome and funny. Thank you 😊

THIS!!! THANK YOU BOTH FOR THIS!!!

Ya'll are in "The ZONE!!!" GREAT MESSAGE!

Wow. This is so sensitively done. My first listen in, but it won't be my last. New subbie.

How about if you wanna talk but your husband doesn’t? Or every time I bring it up he gets upset ? Advice please

I was trying to look for the devotional on your website but couldn’t find it. Has it been taken off?

I asked another brother in Christ, “how do I build a emotional connection with my wife” and his answer “I have no idea”. Thank you for this channel and advice here!

I can't remember the last time we had fun or laughed. We are so distant.

Do you guys have any devo’s on the youversion Bible app???

Excellent, thank you!

I can understand his wife n how she feels my husband doesn't like to communicate he thinks yelling at me is communcating... 😥😥

this for me God answer this prayer fast #my blind spot

I heard from another pastor that emotions come and go thus a successful marriage is about commitment.

Hi thank you so much for your podcast it really helps understand and determine a female spouse on her feelings and thoughts. I have a question that question is what do you do if your spouse male does not understand what your feelings and thoughts are?

I tuned in because your title hit an important issue, and you made several very good points; however (and I say this with all respect), I was very disconcerted by the too frequent talking over each other. I have a hearing problem, Central Auditory Processing Defect, and entire segments of your conversations were blanked out when you did that. And Ashley seemed to dominate the conversation more often. It was very disconcerting... very.

Where can I find the devotional

Welcome to DFW Dave and Ashley, Love you guys content. 👍about sex Ashley! My wife and I use Adventure care too as a drop off.

I believe in your teaching and agree with it. Should do a topic on “ voices” a godly voice will never tell you to go against Gods word! If it does, it’s not from God!

My wife doesn't want to connect with me. Just with her cell phone.

What's your best suggestion to keep the connection when you're a blended family so there's not a long history?

What can u guys advise?? I ve been living in NYC for the last 10 months. My mom got seriously sick and I’ve been away from my husband and children. He supports me and All is good right now but I would like to know how we can stay strong during these difficult times.

Me and my wife have no emotional connection

He never let's me talk and he doesn't talk either.

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As far as babysitters go, I personally don’t have many that I trust. 😬

why is the the silent treatment not that great

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Many valid points have been brought up in this broadcast but I never hear about a spouse who is very overweight. Don’t couples have a responsibility to exercise, eat right and stay in reasonable shape for themselves & their spouse? Physical Attraction is very important.

I don't think the romantic type of love is special. And I am started to think that the romantic type of love isn't real. I mean about more than half of romantic couples either break up with each other or divorce each other, while most platonic best friends remain friends until death. Also, most people are pretty much comfortable enough to be naked around someone and have sex with someone that they have no romantic feelings towards. So sex isn't really a thing about romance. I think that having a platonic best friend is a lot better than having a romantic partner or spouse is. Having someone who's like a sibling to you is a lot better than having a romantic partner is. Also, you would more likely be much closer to a person who's like a brother or sister to you than you would be with a partner or spouse. People tend to fight with their partner or spouse a lot more than they do with a platonic best friend, and you never fight with your best friend the way you fight with your partner or spouse. Partners and spouses are just temporary. If you break up or divorce them, it's hard to go back to them. With your platonic best friend, you're going to make things work, because they are your best friend, they are your go to partner. It's always easier to make amends with them than it is with a romantic partner or spouse. Also, there are a lot of toxic romantic relationships, while there isn't that many toxic platonic relationships. Like an example is that abuse happens a lot in romantic relationships, while abuse is rare in platonic relationships. So there is a lot of abusive romantic relationships, while there is isn't that many abusive platonic relationships. Why do you think abusive romantic relationships have a term for them called "domestic violence", while abusive platonic relationships don't have a term for them? It's because abuse in platonic relationships are very rare, while abuse in romantic relationships happens a lot. And also, a lot of people cheat on their romantic partners with someone else, while most people won't do stuff like that with their platonic best friends. Also, I heard that most people can live a life without romance and can still be happy. But most of the time, if someone doesn't have any platonic friends in their life, it can effect them really bad mentally; much worse than living a life without a romantic partner. In today's world, less people are dating and getting married now, and they seem to be more happy being single rather than being in romantic relationship with someone. Also, You're going to have a much deeper spoken understanding and connection with your best friend than you are with a romantic partner or spouse. So those are other reasons why romantic love isn't real or special, while platonic love is.

What if you really really hate getting spanked cuz I can't stand when people thank me for things