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MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

Celebrating 50 years of Jimmy and Karen

MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

XO Marriage

Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Kids & Family, Parenting, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

50 years. Jimmy and Karen Evans reflect on today's episode on what they have learned, the good and the bad and what it takes to achieve 50 years of marriage. --- For all links mentioned in the episode & more XO content, visit: https://linktr.ee/marriagetoday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Most people get married for sex, money, and children. That's the main three reasons and the problem is if you get married because it's sex

0:08.2

What happens when sex becomes the stress you know, you can only stay married happily

0:14.1

If the reason that you're married is greater than the stress that you're under so you get married to have children

0:20.7

What happens when children are the stress? You know you get married for money. What happens when money becomes the stress

0:25.9

And by the way the number of three top reasons for people to get married is sex children and money

0:31.2

Those are the three top reasons by people divorce

0:33.5

Mm-hmm. And so when when that becomes your stress, and so I say that to say

0:38.3

God we decided early in our marriage the reason that we get married is because of God

0:48.7

Welcome marriage day podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife Karen and the topic today is our 50 years of marriage

0:55.8

You know, this is a kind of a big deal big milestone. I remember our five-year anniversary that we almost didn't make almost divorced before that and

1:04.8

10 and 25 was a big one

1:07.2

Our last big one was 40 but 50 years that we have been married now

1:12.1

And you know, it's a it's a long we've known each other for 54

1:15.9

That's right. We dated for all the years before

1:18.9

You actually had a boyfriend when I met you and that she was she still won't admit that she had a boyfriend

1:24.9

And they barred

1:26.9

Idiot that was he was a senior track star. We could start talking about poke street

1:32.9

All the girls are picked up on poke streets, but anyway, we made it through the dating years

1:37.5

Mm-hmm, and we got married at 19 years old

1:41.2

Didn't know anything about marriage and you know went through several rocky years there at the very beginning and well

1:47.4

I always like to say too

1:48.4

We had so many fights before we got married and people say why did you get married and I was like because I know he was hard

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