A married couple became known throughout their neighborhood for their amorous morning ritual. Each day before the husband left for work, he gave his wife a huge bear hug and a long, passionate kiss.

One morning, the couple next door was observing this daily expression of love. The wife asked her husband, “Why don’t you do that?” He answered, “Why, I hardly know the woman!”

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”—Ephesians 5:25.