Hey guys, welcome back to the Naked Marriage podcast. We are Dave and Ashley Willis. And on this podcast,

we address the truth about sex, intimacy, and lifelong love. And we are so excited about the topic for today.

That's right. It's a great topic and a great question at the end. Yes, always stick around to the end.

We've got a great question that we answer at the end of every

episode. And today's is a really good one. Quick announcement before we dive in. If you've listened to

the podcast for any length of time, you know that we do live events all around the country

called the XO Marriage conferences. You can find out more about those at XO. Marriage.com.

But coming up is our biggest event of the year. It's happening Valentine's Day weekend, live in South Lake, Texas, with live simulcast locations all around the country.

And here's the announcement. We're making the simulcast available, the live simulcast, for the lowest price it's ever been.

And so if your church would like to host this, be a host site for the live simulcast,

you can learn more at X-O-Simulcast.com. That's X-O-S-I-N-U-L-C-A-S-T.com. All the information is there.

Guys, this is a great, great way to build marriage ministry within your church and within your

community and to experience

the best marriage conference on the planet live right where you live this Valentine's Day

weekend. So we hope you'll check that out. That's right. Well, let's dive in to today's topic.

Hey, guys, I'm excited about the topic. We're kind of taking things in a different direction this week and really answering a foundational issue related to marriage, which is why get married at all.

And I know a lot of you are listening. You're like, well, we're already married. But this is important to understand because it's coming back to the meaning of what marriage is. Why get married? Why stay married? What's the point of marriage? How do we

communicate that to our kids, to model for them the kind of marriage that wants them to

carry on in this timeless tradition and sacred covenant of marriage? And how do we, as a couple,

continue to live that out in our own relationship and not just give in and say, well, what's really

the point of all of this?

And so we're going to just talk about the benefits of marriage in a world where a lot of

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