Dave and Ashley Willis talk about how their marriage teaches their teenage sons what to expect from relationships. They model how to speak to a partner, spend time together, and show affection, even when their sons pretend to be embarrassed by it.
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Our teenage boys are, you know, entering into that season where they're going to begin relationships. We're what they're looking at to see how relationships are supposed to be, you know, just through our actions, not through our lessons that we're teaching just by the way we're living. We're showing them how to talk to that person of the opposite sex, how we desire for them to talk to their future wife, how they should expect their future wife to talk to them.
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Normal, What's. Yeah. How do you spend your time? Your. The. The tenderness with one another, the playfulness with one another. I think that's so important. It's always. It's important in every season, but especially as they get older and they're. They're starting to figure out, like, what do I want a future marriage to look like, a serious relationship to look like? There's so much weight in the way that we. We interact with each other.
You know, I can see they want to act grossed out, like when they see us kissing or something or they love it or hugging, but you kind of see in their eyes, like, there's a comfort to that. Like mom and dad.
Gross. But then they smirk like, that's. There is. There's a comfort in it.