3 Questions to Make Your Marriage Better
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to play blame-games in your marriage, but it's better to ask yourself some hard questions. Greg Smalley opens up about some times where he got honest with himself. Then, Dr. Gary Chapman joins Jim Daly to share how three questions can help you have a more Christ-like attitude in your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Help show kids the importance of marriage, family, and faith in Christ. |
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| 0:26.2 | Simply go to focus on thefamily.com slash impossible. |
| 0:34.9 | When we struggle in marriage, the natural instinct is to blame the other person. But what if you ask yourself a few questions? |
| 0:42.0 | Thanks for joining us today. I'm John Fuller, and we've got Greg and Aaron Smalley in the studio. And you two, I just love being around you. You're life-giving. And because you're life-giving because you're real and you do bring some smiles. |
| 0:57.0 | How has marriage helped you? And I don't know which one of you wants to answer this, but |
| 1:01.4 | how has marriage helped you to look in the mirror and kind of be at peace with yourself? |
| 1:06.2 | Because there are times when I get triggered and I want to blame her, but then I realize, |
| 1:10.7 | oh yeah, she's got to live with me. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, I know for me, thinking back to a season when we lived in Branson, Missouri, |
| 1:18.5 | this is probably 20 years ago kind of thing. |
| 1:22.0 | And I was going through a really hard time with my family. |
| 1:26.8 | We were all working together in one big kind of family ministry. |
| 1:32.0 | And it just, there were some challenges. |
| 1:34.4 | And I just, I ended up super depressed. |
| 1:37.3 | And to the point to where it really, um, caused me to when I would come home from work. |
| 1:45.0 | I didn't want to talk to Aaron, the kids. |
| 1:47.0 | I didn't want to be around anyone. |
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