Make It Your Goal to Gross Out Your Kids 😂 | The Naked Marriage Podcast | Dave & Ashley Willis

I think that one of the simplest ways, just, you know, for those who have kids in the home, a great way to just start creating a great legacy for your kids and really a security for them is letting them see that marriage is fun. Like, let them see. Yes, absolutely. Like, even on a hard day, like, let them see that you can apologize. Like, in fact, there's strength in apologizing when you get it wrong and in trying to turn it around and get it right. Let them see that, that even on hard days you can make it better, right? And that God can make it better. Let them see that even in the busyness of life, you guys take time to dance in the kitchen, or you take time to have a hug in the morning, that you, they see you speaking words of life to each other. Like, let them see that. There is such, such a comfort when kids get to see their parents not perfectly live out marriage, but imperfectly live out a very loving marriage.

Make it your goal to gross out your kids.

Oh yeah.

Sometimes just by being, At least once a week. I mean, like, what a, you know, one of our kids years ago, he said, "Why can't you be like my friend's parents who just never touch?" And I'm like, "What?" And then I'm like, "Is that really what you want?" And he kind of smirked and said, "No." Because there's a comfort they get from seeing the playfulness and that we love each other and we like each other and we want to be around each other. That helps them be excited for marriage in a world that kids are growing up without good examples and they don't wanna be married. I mean, there's an epidemic of people that just are afraid of marriage and that's heartbreaking 'cause marriage can be such a gift. But I also understand their fear if they've seen only negative examples of why that fear exists.

Absolutely.

But it's a great legacy, just helping your kids love and value marriage.