A Great Goal for Your Marriage

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In the early stages of your relationship, it was easy to dream of the perfect marriage. But over time, as your expectations meet reality, it's easy to let discouragement set in. Erin, Greg and John discuss how to keep growing together as a couple, even when you feel disappointed in your marriage.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.2	today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You
0:35.6	can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage
0:41.1	podcast. Many years ago when I was engaged to Dina like most people I had
0:46.7	ideas of what marriage was going to be like and she had her ideas and there
0:50.9	was kind of the the bursting of the balloon one night. I swung by her place
0:56.3	after a really long day and I was sitting on her sofa and I was just like
1:01.9	checked out. I was a spud couch potato and she later told me that she
1:07.8	remembers that moment she looked at me and just told herself it's okay. They're
1:13.5	gonna be nights like this when we're married and it's okay and she really did a
1:17.8	good job of lowering the bar if you will. I'm John Fuller here in the studio with
1:22.4	Greg and Erin Smolley. They had up our marriage team and let me take you back
1:26.4	to your engagement, Erin. What were some of your expectations for marriage? Well
1:30.8	they weren't really expectations because they were all true. I was that
1:35.2	perfect. Is this reality ever heard? You might have noticed I asked
1:39.4	Erin. Yes. I am so sorry. You know it was so funny just last week I was in
1:45.4	Denver close to where we lived when we married and there was a sitting in the
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