Marriage is hard... really hard!  Two people enter into a life-long promise to love one another as both people continue to change, grow and become.  Two people bring their whole selves into an incredibly intimate relationship where cultural realities clash and sparks fly.  Our ethnic identities, personalities and family of origin baggage all gets unpacked in the context of marriage.  Our guests this week have written a beautiful book that takes a nuanced approach to partnerships of all kinds and speaks truth, love and hope!

Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum join us to share about their new book "Choosing Us" and share some of their perspective on how we can cultivate mutual flourishing in the midst of such diversity in our romantic partnerships!  We talk about gender roles, unhealthy expectations, patriarchy and the fact that we never arrive at "perfect partner" status.  Then we reimagined Ephesians 5:21-32 and Brian reminds us of the context of the passage and takes us back to the garden.

Follow Gail and Brian on instagram @gailsongbantum and @profbkb and order "Choosing Us" right now at http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/choosing-us/408440 . 

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