You go to your spouse and you say, baby, I want to be your department store of love and I realize I'm not perfect.

I realize I've got issues and I want to make you happy and I'm not successful until you tell me I'm successful.

And if there's something that you need, I'm going to give you a new one.

I'm not going to hassle you. It doesn't mean I'm always going to agree with what you say.

But my desire is to please you and you will never pay a price for being honest with me.

Hi, I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast.

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In every good marriage, there's an atmosphere where you're not afraid to tell the truth.

You're not afraid to say how you feel and you have to cultivate that.

Now, there are a tell the story of two stores that I shop in.

One that I still shop in. That's a wonderful store.

And I went in there one day and I had bought a jacket, a leather jacket.

This was two or three years after I bought the jacket and the shoulder was going out on the jacket.

And I walked in and I put the jacket on the counter there and I said, in the young lady behind the counter,

I said, would you guys mind fixing that for me, sending out to get fixed?

And she said, oh, what happened? I said, well, the shoulders just kind of messed up.

I said, I think they just fixed it. She said, no, just get another one.

And I said, no, I don't want to buy another one. She said, no, no, just get another one.

And I said, no, I don't want to buy another one.

She said, no, just throw the rack over there and pick one out and you have it.

And I said, how much? She said, free.

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