Thank you for joining me for this first episode of Brides & Wives. This podcast is all about helping young brides-to-be, wives and members of the Bride of Christ live real, healthy, intimate and sustainable lives. In this episode I talk about why it is important to have a healthy marriage in the first place! Healthy marriages illustrate and help us to understand, through experience, what is means for the Bride of Christ to be healthy. Healthy marriages do not complete us but they do show us where we are incomplete and provide a safe space for us to see our own dysfunctions so that we can seek healing from Jesus. A healthy marriage also seeps out into our family lives - even if we don’t have children yet. Don’t underestimate the power that your healthy marriage can have, even as newlyweds in your early 20’s, on your parents, siblings, cousins, aunties, uncles and grandparents.