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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

3 Rs for a Deeper Relationship

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How are you being intentional to make your marriage better? Rhonda Stoppe and Jim Daly will encourage you with 3 Rs - remember, repent, return. Also, John, Erin and Greg bring up how to respond well if your spouse is caught in unrepentant patterns of sin.

 

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0:00.0

Is your marriage struggling, communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve?

0:07.6

There's still hope.

0:09.2

Hope Restored marriage intensives by focus on the family, help couples step away from daily life,

0:15.0

and focus fully on rebuilding their relationship.

0:18.0

And right now, through the Marriage Investment Initiative,

0:22.1

Hope Restored is investing $1,000 toward marriage intensives. Visit hoperestored.com slash marriage dash investment.

0:35.0

So a lot of us are very intentional about our physical workouts, but how intentional are you in your

0:40.4

marriage and keeping things going there? Throughout this month, we're going to be exploring

0:45.2

ways that you can really focus on becoming healthier as an individual so your relationship can

0:50.9

really thrive. I'm John Fuller, joined by my colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smalley.

0:55.4

They're experts in marriage. They lead the marriage department here at Focus. And we're going to

1:00.2

hear now part of a conversation that focus on the family president Jim Daly had on his show

1:04.9

with Rhonda Stoppy. She and her husband, Steve, have been married for over 30 years, and she addresses three

1:12.5

decisions you can make as a couple to stay healthy.

1:16.2

Rhonda, let me ask you in the book, you mentioned the three R's that you encourage couples

1:19.8

to follow to get that feeling back, that feeling of love.

1:23.6

So let's hit that for hope.

1:26.2

You know where those three R came from when Jesus talked to

1:29.8

the churches in the book of Revelation? And he said, remember from where you have fallen. He says,

1:36.7

repent, remember, return. And that's a beautiful picture when our relationship is starting to not

1:43.9

be what we had hoped it would be, when we know

1:46.4

we need to rekindle it. If you think about it, your kids are going to emulate your marriage.

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