Love & Respect: How Husbands Can (Better) Love Their Wives | Love By Faith with Kyle & Selina Almodovar

When a wife seems to lose her will to love, how can husbands better love their wives?

Discover practical advice on rekindling relationships through genuine connection, patience, and humility.

Join us as we uncover the secrets to nurturing love amidst the chaos, exploring the pivotal roles of trust, friendship, and faith.

In this series, we reflect on personal journeys that illustrate the transformative power of embracing God's way in relationships. Inspired by the wisdom of Dr. Emerson Eggerichs' "Love and Respect," we discuss how unconditional love can deepen and enrich partnerships.

We'll share stories that highlight the impact of small gestures and open communication, giving you the tools to rebuild trust and restart the love cycle. Let’s transform this season into a time of renewed affection and commitment.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Navigating Relationships During the Holidays
• 3:12 Love, Respect, and Unconditional Relationships
• 18:48 Reviving Love Through Connection and Humility

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

How husbands can love their wives, that's right, this is stupid.

Speaker 2: 0:04

No, this is my wife. She's supposed to love me unconditionally.

Speaker 1: 0:07

I'm depleted, I'm out of energy, I'm numb to the situation.

Speaker 2: 0:12

How does he get her back, get on her love side?

Speaker 1: 0:15

There's always that fear in the back of your head that you're going to get hurt. We're not perfect people.

Speaker 2: 0:22

By any means. But by trusting in God we learned what it takes to build a friendship, a relationship and marriage that has stood the test of time. With a keeping it real style. We're going to talk to you about everything everything that we've been through are going through and have overcome all by learning how to lean on God and each other in order to help you learn how to love by faith. What's up, Selena?

Speaker 1: 1:04

What's up Kyle?

Speaker 2: 1:04

Happy up girl happy tuesday happy tuesday happy december happy december we made it man thanksgiving christmas season time for gifts under the tree.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Yeah, man let's go definitely. This is gifts, love, languages favorite time of year because we know for sure we're going to be loved in some way, in some capacity. Somebody's going to love us this season, somebody, somebody with our love language, so that's exciting yo, so are we officially into coughing season?

Speaker 2: 1:33

are we deep in coughing season? Like I never followed that. I never knew what that was, till I met you so till you, met me till I met you really you didn't know what coughing season was.

Speaker 1: 1:42

So coughinging season originates roughly in the fall, so like late september, early october, okay is when people start to get into their fall feels and they start going on dates, they start meeting people so that by the time it gets cold which is holiday season, officially thanksgiving season. That is when they're like all right, we're gonna hunker down you have somebody to snuggle up with for the winter right, we're gonna lock in and we're gonna start cuffing so we're deep into cuffing season.

Speaker 2: 2:13

So if cuffing season's going good, you're getting ready to buy them a gift for their first christmas, kind of thing yes.

Speaker 1: 2:19

However, I will say statistics show. Don't ask me which source there's which source I'll link them if you need them.

Speaker 1: 2:26

But statistics show that the holiday season is also the beginning of breakup season, Because you're either cuffing and holding on because you met someone new and then you break up with them in the spring, or those who are in serious relationships. Either two things happen Either they're expecting an elevation in their relationship they're going to take it to the next level there's going to be proposals somewhere out there between these holiday seasons or you're going to get broken up before they have to buy the gift.

Speaker 2: 2:53

I've definitely seen a handful of Christmas proposals, that's for sure, or New Year's proposals, for sure.

Speaker 1: 2:58

Yes, and you're either going to break up before Christmas, before the gift, before New Year's, when?

Speaker 2: 3:03

the.

Speaker 1: 3:03

New Year begins or before February.

Speaker 2: 3:05

Wow.

Speaker 1: 3:05

When you have to declare your love publicly to everyone.

Speaker 2: 3:08

For Valentine's Day. For Valentine's Day, the pressure of Valentine's Day, okay.

Speaker 1: 3:11

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 2: 3:12

The history of cuffing season folks.

Speaker 1: 3:14

I was a victim of getting dumped on Christmas.

Speaker 2: 3:17

Wow.

Speaker 1: 3:17

Christmas yeah, four days before Christmas was like my biggest breakup ever.

Speaker 2: 3:21

I started, so it's funny. I started my best relationship ever on Valentine's Day. That's when Jesus was like Kyle, you're mine and really called me out of the darkness and I gave my life to the Lord. It was on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 1: 3:33

That's so beautiful. I love this story because I have a freakishly good memory.

Speaker 2: 3:39

Yeah. And when you describe yes, you do. Oh, my gosh, when you describe oh my gosh.

Speaker 1: 3:42

You describe February 14th that year.

Speaker 2: 3:45

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:46

I know exactly where I was. I know, I know exactly where. I was what I was doing, what I was thinking, that same exact time that you were there.

Speaker 2: 3:54

Wow. Do you want to share that?

Speaker 1: 3:55

Yeah, sure.

Speaker 2: 3:57

February 14th 2010, selena.

Speaker 1: 3:59

February 14th 2010. I was um over my friend's house and she had, she had, she was with. She was living with her partner, but they had friends over all the time because they had a bunch of spare rooms. I was over there. I woke up in one of the spare rooms alone by myself, super sad, because I was like I can't believe. This is the first Valentine's day where I'm alone, because it was just after that Christmas breakup. So I was all by myself and I'm like I have to leave this place because I want to give them their space and their respect and let them do them because they're a couple. And when I opened the door, there was a little Valentine's Day candy for me, because her boyfriend gave everyone Valentine's Day candy so that they didn't feel left out.

Speaker 2: 4:44

What a guy.

Speaker 1: 4:45

And so I was like, oh, that's so sweet. But then it made me feel really depressed because I'm like, oh, this is like a sympathy candy. You're just trying to make me feel better, but I feel miserable.

Speaker 1: 4:56

And so I went home and I just crept in my bed and I just cried in my bed and I probably stalked my ex and I just felt so low and just so pathetic and just so depressed. And that's where I was when you gave your life to God and when you started your journey you were getting a little little mini heart of things to come. I was just a tiny just that's awesome.

Speaker 2: 5:20

I'm sorry that it was sad times, but I'm also glad that that it was the beginning of such great things in your life.

Speaker 1: 5:25

It was yes, and that you can remember that it was sad times, but I'm also glad that it was the beginning of such great things in your life. It was yes, and that you can remember that it was when God was really starting to turn my life into his way.

Speaker 2: 5:33

Into his way, and when we do it his way, the love is so much better.

Speaker 2: 5:36

Absolutely the love is so much deeper. I know the relationships I had before. I knew the Lord and the marriage that we got into. You really be honest, right, I went on a few dates after I got saved, yeah, and really just never had a good connection until I met you. Wow, and the love that I've found and obviously we've been married for so long but it's just the love was so different. The love was so different. Being inside a marriage and being inside of God's covenant relationship style. I don't know. God's covenant relationship just makes it so much fuller, it just makes it so much deeper, it makes it so much more passionate and more real.

Speaker 1: 6:11

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:12

More tangible than worldly love.

Speaker 1: 6:15

It's so funny that you say that, because when you met me, I was literally trying to scare you away. I pulled out all the stops that's funny Told you about my criminal record, my debt records, my credit score. I told you all the things and you're just over here with like oh, she's the one.

Speaker 2: 6:37

It just sounds crazy. This is such a smooth transition into our topic for the month of December.

Speaker 1: 6:39

So, as you guys know, every month we start a new series and tell us how this leads into the new series this month series is going to be lightly based on the book love and respect by dr emerson eggrich, eggrich's eggrich's.

Speaker 2: 6:53

There's an s at the end and it's like eggrich's eggrich yes, dr emerson eggrich no, it's like eggrich, it's eggrich's, eggrich's sure okay love and respect.

Speaker 1: 7:03

It'll be in the description for you guys. It's gonna be loosely based on that book.

Speaker 2: 7:07

We're gonna highlight some points in there and we're gonna hit deep on love, hit deep on respect and hit deep on how to make them all work together why do you want to focus on this particular book in this particular month?

Speaker 2: 7:18

so I've read through this book a few times now, okay, and each time the message has come across in a different way, and the way he helps us understand the different genders and how to connect as a husband and wife is so impactful that I think this is a book that really should be in every Christian marriage library Absolutely, because it's so, so good. It helps in how to understand each other, how to fight fair and how to really see each other in a lens. That is how God wants you to see each other. He's got such great scripture references and he's really spent his life devoted to this love and respect topic and it's just a great resource for everyone.

Speaker 2: 8:03

Amen, love and respect topic and it's just great resource for everyone.

Speaker 2: 8:05

Amen, yeah, so we're talking about love yeah, before we got into the introduction, but yes, we're talking about love in relationship and how love with god is so different yes the big thing I love about love with god is god's unconditional love, and so many times we get into life where it's I love you when you do this and I love you when you do that, and I love you because you provide for me.

Speaker 2: 8:28

I love you because you change my heart. And while all those things are great and sound awesome from us to God or from us to our spouse God's love, the way he pours it out on us just he didn't care what I was doing when he called me out on Valentine's Day. He didn't care what I was doing all those years before that when he was trying to call me out and trying to call me out and I was ignoring him. He just kept pursuing and kept pursuing. And part of the Love and Respect book is when we keep that wholehearted love for my wife unconditionally is just I'm going to choose to love her, no matter how she treats me, no matter how she behaves, no matter how her response to my love is. I'm going to keep on loving her is just such a beautiful message and a great thing for our listeners to take into their marriage.

Speaker 1: 9:15

So today's episode is all about how husbands can love their wives.

Speaker 2: 9:21

That's right, unconditional.

Speaker 1: 9:22

Unconditionally love their wives. Can I say something?

Speaker 2: 9:25

Absolutely. You can always say something on the podcast when you got the mic always say something, thank you.

Speaker 1: 9:34

So I've read this book when we were dating yeah, I believe when we were dating, maybe when we were engaged around that season, and so we have the book. It's been on our shelf for years, and the concept of unconditional love and how we're striving to love unconditionally is something that we will never meet, something we'll never meet. So I'm going to go ahead and you think so I do, because here's the scenario. Okay, what if you're at work? Okay, or, let's take us out of this situation. What if a guy is at work, loving his wife, being the best husband that he can be, striving to reach their goals and their dreams? He comes home early to surprise her, catches her in bed with another man.

Speaker 1: 10:10

Oh my goodness, that is will he still love her after that? See what I mean conditional, it's conditional, conditional this is.

Speaker 2: 10:22

This is good because this gets into one of the the heart topics of the book yes in love and respect one of the presumptions, the things that that is the basis for the book to go forward. Each member of the relationship has goodwill towards the other person, so there is a longing there to be connected to this person. And so in your hypothetical, I would say that with her infidelity, there is very low to no longing to be there. Correct too far to where she is not willing to work back towards it or she has gotten so distracted that she's sought love somewhere else. And not going to say that it's the guy's fault, but this could be a result of her lack of feeling love from her husband, her lack of feeling unconditional love from her husband.

Speaker 1: 11:14

So my point in that and that is just one example the woman can completely lose faith in God, and then how does that will the man to love her still? And through that, all of the situations could be addiction, could be abuse, could be assault, anything, but the fact remains the term unconditional love is something that only God can truly achieve. That's right.

Speaker 2: 11:40

That's right, that's true. I mean the deepest form to be 100% unconditional. Yes God, Absolutely.

Speaker 1: 11:46

And so for us to strive for that, we have to go into it knowing that there's always going to be a part of us that will never have enough faith and enough love for anybody to say that we can fully love you unconditionally. All we can do is strive and have God in the mix to fill in the gaps.

Speaker 2: 12:08

So let me ask you this who in the relationship needs love more?

Speaker 1: 12:11

I believe the woman. I was always taught that, besides women needing love, women need to feel secure. Okay, and one of those security blankets, if you will, that women need covering in is they need to know that their love is real and strong.

Speaker 2: 12:29

So you know going. You said, they said that so fast. Say that again slow. They need to know that their love is real and strong.

Speaker 1: 12:37

Yes, and so going back to our conversation earlier at the beginning, where I said I was trying to scare you off, yeah okay.

Speaker 1: 12:45

So I was trying to scare you off, and the reason why was because I was afraid to love okay because when you go into a human loving relationship, there's always that fear in the back of your head that you're going to get hurt yeah, okay. So when you go into love with a blanket of fear, you're never going to love fully and wholeheartedly. So you need love from the man that's going to be real and going to be strong enough to show them that it is the real thing. And so, once they feel the security of that love coming from the man, over time and time and time again, through the ups and downs and the fix and thins.

Speaker 1: 13:29

You know, trying to mimic as much of God's love as possible, being as unconditional as you can be, then that releases something in the woman to submit wholeheartedly into that love and in that relationship.

Speaker 2: 13:43

Amen. That's a great point In the book. He hits on this Okay, he hits on that we're going to fall short, we're going to screw up. The guy is going to mess up how he loves on his wife. He has a great example of where a guy remembered their anniversary. He had a hard time remembering their anniversary. He remembers their anniversary. He had a hard time remembering their anniversary.

Speaker 1: 14:00

He remembers their anniversary. When's our?

Speaker 2: 14:00

anniversary Right May 4th 2013. I'll be with you. So he remembers the anniversary and he's so excited. He goes to the Hallmark and gets the card and he's so excited and he writes in the card and he signs it and closes it and brings it to his wife and drops it off yes, and she's so excited because he's forgotten this before and he gets the card and opens up the card.

Speaker 1: 14:22

It says happy birthday.

Speaker 2: 14:23

Her face drops and she's like this would be a great card for somebody's birthday and then the night is over and ruined from there, and how they respond to each other goes the wrong way. It goes into the crazy cycle of her putting him down and him shutting her out, because now I tried, I just made an honest mistake. Why can't you just, yeah, just deal with it and just show appreciation yeah and so they go into what's called the crazy cycle yeah where each member is choosing to break the rules of loving and respecting.

Speaker 1: 14:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:58

And that crazy cycle happens so quick and so easy.

Speaker 1: 15:02

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:02

And like your doors are slamming, you're yelling at each other, you're telling each other to go away, yeah, and then it takes so much time and energy to rebuild from that.

Speaker 1: 15:11

Yes, it does.

Speaker 2: 15:13

And so it's just, that's when you have to get back on the good cycle.

Speaker 1: 16:29

It reminds me of the Bible verse.

Speaker 2: 16:30

You know the the enemy is just prowling around like a lion, right he's just ready to devour, and you know when you think about primates right when you think about cats and and animalistic tendencies.

Speaker 1: 16:41

They are waiting. Yeah, they are.

Speaker 1: 16:43

They keep their eye, they stalk on, they stalk it they keep their eye on that prey for just one tiny slip up, because they know that they have enough reflexes inside of them to pounce when the time is ready. And pouncing is quick. It's very fast, and that is exactly how the enemy is looking at us. Why? Because he wants to destroy us. He wants to destroy our legacy, our family, our seeds that come out of this, whether it's through children, through ministry, through work that we do with other people.

Speaker 1: 17:17

And so he is stalking you guys. For that, he's rejoicing in the fact that you got upset over a birthday card on an anniversary because he knew that at some point it was going to slip, because he started toying around with the fact of your weakness and forgetting a moment, and so you have to be very mindful of that, you have to be very guarded with that, because anything like you said, it could be any. Does this dress make me look fat? Clear example Absolutely Turns into something completely off.

Speaker 2: 17:49

Guys, the answer is always a fast no. In case you're wondering when she asked that about the dress, the whole heart of the matter is that how she responds changes everything. I loved when you said, oh, but he tried. That's your heart. That is what a beautiful response would have been. That is a respectful response, that is. And he's showing his love. And he was like oh, honey, I'm just trying to love on you and do the right thing.

Speaker 1: 18:16

But at the same time I can see where she's so upset, because time after time after time, Everyone can see that she went out of her way and tried to explain why this matters and why it should be considered and please make an effort. And he made an effort, but not enough effort and it's just like it's too little, too late. I'm done, right, I can understand that too right, because that's hard. So we talked about even just the simplest form of offense on a woman.

Speaker 1: 18:45

You the guy is just too little, too late. We talked about the very great, vast polar opposite of that on the other side of the spectrum, where the wife has just lost the will to love, and whether that is because of repetitive mistakes, whether that is because he is no longer paying attention. Maybe he's a workaholic and he just doesn't care for her. Maybe they've tried and the trying just didn't meet the expectations, and so now the woman is just kind of given up.

Speaker 1: 19:14

The woman is just like I'm done. I'm depleted, I'm out of energy, I'm numb to the situation. How does a husband choose to love her and give her the strong, real love that she needs to make this relationship work, continue it and thrive?

Speaker 2: 19:37

that's the question how does he get her back, get on her love side?

Speaker 1: 19:41

get her into the love yes, get her into the love path the love cycle do the first step is connection.

Speaker 2: 19:49

You got to connect with her. This is going to be talking dudes. This is going to be more words than you're comfortable with. This is going to be sitting with her and not just sitting with her and watching a show where you guys don't talk. This is having a cup of coffee where you're looking each other's eyes and going through the basics and reconnecting, because if you've gone so far into the crazy cycle that you can't even have a conversation, you got to start over.

Speaker 1: 20:16

Can I add right here gotta start over, can I add? Right here um it's really important, guys, that if you guys are at this place, yeah, we need to hear that you know what you did, yeah, or what you've been doing. Don't just skip over and pretend like you're not a problem and you're not a part of the solution you lead me right to my next point, okay, which is humility yes, yes, you got to be willing to come back and say I'm sorry, this was unloving, this was not kind of me.

Speaker 2: 20:46

I want to love you better. I want to be your lover, not in the romantic sense. I want to be the lover of you as a person and come back humility, I'm sorry for not loving you the right way. I'm sorry for not showing you the right way. I'm sorry for not showing you love in this moment, when I had the opportunity, and then having the understanding of, hey, you messed up and owning it yourself, taking it in your own heart like wait a second even though we just got into a disagreement, we just got into the crazy cycle. What did I do to bring us there? What did I do? That was unloving, that she felt unloved and how do I make that right? You know how do I come back to her for that forgiveness yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:28

And so that's that's it Connection, humility, understanding. Come back and connect with her. That's good and go slow.

Speaker 1: 21:37

You can't be expecting you know, yeah, you can't, you have to go slow.

Speaker 2: 21:41

With that connection, with the humility, with the understanding, it's not going to be like a three-minute talk. You're not going to say it once. You might have to say sorry, like three or four times. Yeah, you know, and then it's up and you might have to give her space, depending on how long y'all been on the crazy cycle yeah you're gonna have to give her space to process that and be like wait a second.

Speaker 2: 21:59

He's just saying this so that when we go to bed later it'll be cool. He's not saying that from a heartfelt place like it's got to be genuine.

Speaker 1: 22:06

One of the things that I do kind of in a playful way, but sometimes I am upset and it's the way I communicate is kyle is always. You know, we have the talk, we have the conversation, and he's like can I have a hug? And i'm'm like no, I don't want to. I don't want to, I don't want you to touch me.

Speaker 2: 22:20

I like that closure of the hug at the end of the disagreement.

Speaker 1: 22:23

He wants to. You know, seal it right, seal the deal and let's move forward. And I'm like, no, I don't want you to touch me right now, but I will give you a finger touch and I'll give him a finger touch, okay. Okay, let's give a hug and I just try to warm my way into it because sometimes it does take a lot of time. There's, you know, women are rivers, things just kind of flow, and it takes a long time for us to have those things flow out of us and for us to be able to process it enough for us to accept that you are genuine and you're coming from a place of love and what you're saying is valid. You know, we're, we're testing the validity of what you're saying and we're comparing it to prior incidents and previous reactions, and so we have to kind of test these waters and a lot of the times it's not as quick and easy as they want it to be.

Speaker 2: 23:23

And you're checking your heart to see. Am I ready to trust him? Is he really love me enough to just poke my finger instead of hugging me? And there's times where I'm just like this is stupid. No, this is my wife. She's supposed to love me unconditionally and she just put on her little finger for me to touch and I do it like just like this is stupid.

Speaker 2: 23:39

no, this is my wife she's supposed to love me unconditionally, oh yeah, and she just put on her little finger for me to touch and I do it like that and I'm like, oh, this is stupid, but it's real, it's gentle, it's connection. It's compromise it's humility meeting in the middle, it's understanding for her and where she's at, and it helps us to love deeper and for our love cycle to start over. And it's not like this for a whole extended weekend.

Speaker 1: 24:04

It's literally an hour a few minutes of just like okay, I'm going to put myself out there and I'm going to trust that this love is real and I'm going to show him that my love is real.

Speaker 2: 24:18

So good.

Speaker 1: 24:18

And so I'm going to meet you in the middle.

Speaker 2: 24:20

So let me put a pretty little bow on this. Yes, unconditional love looks like connection with your partner. Looks like the guy being humble enough to meet his wife where she's at.

Speaker 1: 24:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:34

Like Jesus coming after the one for the 99. Unconditional love. Yes, looks like the husband connecting with his wife.

Speaker 1: 24:43

Yes.

Speaker 2: 24:43

Slowly, communication, engaging in a way that she can feel his love. He has to say it and mean it and be real about it.

Speaker 1: 24:55

And he has to be consistent so that it rings true over time.

Speaker 2: 25:00

And when you mess up, guys coming back with the humility to say sorry Absolutely, to be willing to accept her where she's at and to ask for forgiveness and say literally I'm sorry, will you forgive me for this? That is the way she needs to be loved.

Speaker 1: 25:18

But not just that. This, that is the way she needs to be loved. But not just that. When she is in the wrong, when she has lost hope, when she has lost touch, how can you?

Speaker 2: 25:28

guys unconditionally love her. It's the same thing. Connect with her. Hey, I know this is not how you want it to be, I know this is not where you want things to be, but I'm willing to work with you so that we can get there together. That connection, that humility that you know you're willing to put in work, even though the guy as a guy you didn't do anything to get us there, or you did very little to get us there, or she's just having a bad day You're willing to do what it takes to get there together will speak so much to her love and to her heart that you won't be able to get away from her so much to her love and to her heart that you won't be able to get away from her.

Speaker 1: 26:03

I can attest to this. Seeing that your man is willing to fight for you and for the relationship really champions the desire to fight for that relationship.

Speaker 2: 26:17

Amen.

Speaker 1: 26:18

When I can see. It's like I see medieval times, like this man with his sword and his shield, and he's like I'm not giving up on this castle.

Speaker 1: 26:27

This is my kingdom, this is my home. I'm willing to fight for it, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that this is fortified and that this structure will not fall. As for me, in my house we shall serve the Lord, and I know I trust in God and I trust in what he's doing here and what he has brought together. Let no man separate or bring apart.

Speaker 1: 26:47

And that includes you, that includes me and I'm willing to take a stand for that. That kind of attitude, guys will help your girl will help your wife see and receive that love Absolutely, and it changes a lot of things towards how you would go about fixing and remedying your relationship.

Speaker 2: 27:10

Yes, amen, 100%. That bow is tied bro.

Speaker 1: 27:15

I like it so nice Christmas bows all around.

Speaker 2: 27:18

So next week we cover the hard topic of respect why is? It so hard get into that. You have to tune in and listen. It's so good we'll find out get into the book love and respect wonderful by dr emerson eggrich.

Speaker 2: 27:32

It's going to help your relationship. It's going to help your heart. It's going to make it's not going to make your troubles go away. It's not going to make your troubles go away. It's not going to make your disagreements go away. Like little things happen, big things happen, hard things that you don't expect happen. But this book helps you stay in the love cycle so that when you respond, it's not degrading your relationship.

Speaker 1: 27:55

Yes.

Speaker 2: 27:56

It's letting adversity make your relationship stronger, and that's what we're after at Love by Faith Ministries. Amen, that's what we're after.

Speaker 1: 28:05

Let's pray, let's pray. That's what I was going to say.

Speaker 2: 28:07

Lord, we are so grateful to be here today, that you have given us breath in our lungs to share and to bring Holy Spirit filled words from your Holy Scriptures, Lord, and we just pray that the people would put it in their hearts to seek you and to seek your word, to seek to love each other unconditionally in their relationships and to let that love flow out into the world and into their community around them. I pray for everyone listening that their relationships would be strong, that the men would be humble, would seek connection with their wives and would let the love grow between them. And I pray that the wives, when they see this change, would not be put off by it, would see it as real and would feel that love and feel that growth. In Jesus' name, amen.

Speaker 1: 28:53

Amen, amen. Thank you guys again for watching and listening to Love by Faith podcast. We appreciate every single person that is watching, whether you are overseas or whether you are in the States, whether you're in our own town. We just appreciate you guys so much. If you want to help us out, make sure that you go to our YouTube channel, like and subscribe, share your video with somebody that you think could benefit from this and everything that we talked about. If you're listening to Spotify or Apple, give us a five-star review and write a review. Let other people know hey, this is what I got out of this podcast and you would get something out of it as well, something for you guys. Since it's Christmas season, we want to go ahead and give you guys our free.

Speaker 1: 29:35

Love by Faith Couples playbook free free download, updated almost every single month with new resources, fresh insight, workbooks, worksheets, prayers, all types of tools and tips to help you guys grow to love by faith in your own relationship. Make sure you check that out. All of these links are in the description.

Speaker 2: 29:53

This month's resource is how to encourage your husband when he's feeling blank, and there's a few different scenarios in there. So you can absolutely you to encourage your husband when he's feeling blank, and there's a few different scenarios in there. So, you can encourage your husband when he's going through good times and bad times there you go. Because we want strong relationships around here.

Speaker 1: 30:10

One playbook updated all the time. Make sure you grab it. Link in the description. We hope you enjoy this and we look forward to seeing you guys next week.

Speaker 2: 30:19

It's always, always a good idea to love by faith.

Speaker 1: 30:23

Bye guys, Take care.

Speaker 2: 30:24

See you next time.

Speaker 1: 30:34

I almost wore my Fleece. Navidad shirt.

Speaker 2: 30:36

Fleece Navidad, you got time.

Speaker 1: 30:38

You can't sing it like that anymore. You got to sing it like that anymore. You got to sing it like the emo llamas.

Speaker 2: 30:43

Feliz.

Speaker 1: 30:44

Navidad.

Speaker 2: 30:45

Yeah, you're the better singer than me. I'm not.

Speaker 1: 30:49

Feliz Navidad, prospero Año, feliz Navidad it's so good. Oh, it's so good, especially because it's a sheep shirt that says Feliz navidad. I can't think of any other way to sing that song I'm still hooked.

Speaker 2: 31:03

I know it's past thanksgiving or whatever, but I'm still hooked on the tiny chef, turkey, doing the oh, tiny chef man I can't do it, but y'all know what I'm talking about they don't see you. It's all audio well then, you know, I'm talking about the tiny chef audio. Tiny chef, tiny chef is a trip, it's a good show, it is, it's a funny show, but it's all audio.

Speaker 1: 31:20

Well then, you know, I'm talking about the tiny chef audio. Tiny chef, tiny chef is a trip, that's a good show it is. It's a funny show, but it's a trip next time. Next time you want to do a cooking show next time?

Speaker 2: 31:32

no, I want to do a love my faith podcast unconditional respect okay unconditional who does that respect? Notitional who does that Respect?

Speaker 1: 31:41

Not even a dog does that.

Speaker 2: 31:44

Unconditional respect, love by faith. We gotta go. We'll see you next time.

Speaker 1: 31:51

Bye, bye, please. Now we go.