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Hey this is John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and slash marriage you or let you down in and today we're covering a tough topic and that is

forgiving your spouse when they've betrayed you or let you down in some significant way.

Dave Carter talked to Jim Daly about this.

It was in the context of one spouse being unfaithful,

but we know that trust issues can crop up in any part of marriage.

Here now, Jim Daly talking to Dave Carter.

Let's talk about some solutions and one of them is seeking forgiveness and why that is key and how does that play out in

your experience counseling these couples? Yeah well forgiveness is the core of it even

all the secular people who work in this field that my colleagues and such, we all agree that forgiveness is a key and everybody has some idea of forgiveness. Even Disney has an idea of forgiveness. Let it go, you know, so you have to do that but the thing when most couples get

stuck in recovery and they aren't able to really restore the marriage it's one

or two things always almost always one it's an incomplete forgiveness

process or two they don't have enough good history to fall back on to save a

marriage in other words it's a bad marriage from the beginning and this just compounds the badness.

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