After an Affair is Confessed
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Even if your spouse has betrayed you, God promises to still be with you. The Bible reminds us that He is close to those who are brokenhearted. If your marriage is in a dark place, we want to offer some hope. John, Greg and Erin discuss a few helpful tips for couples on how to get through a valley of deep hurts. Featuring Mark and Jill Savage.
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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 |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.9 | In the Old Testament book of Psalms chapter 34, we're given an incredible |
| 0:40.0 | promise from God. It says, the Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves the |
| 0:44.9 | crushed in spirit. And even if you've been hurt by your spouse, that promise is |
| 0:49.6 | still true. God has not forgotten you. I'm John Fuller along with my focus |
| 0:55.0 | colleagues, Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron. And today we're hearing more |
| 0:58.9 | from a conversation that Jim Daley and I had with Mark and Jill Savage. Now in |
| 1:03.8 | previous episodes, they shared how they'd been married for a number of years when |
| 1:07.4 | it was revealed that Mark had been unfaithful to Jill. On an Easter Sunday, the |
| 1:12.8 | Lord convicted Mark of his actions and he repented. And here they are talking |
| 1:17.5 | about what it was like in their relationship after Mark confessed. The affair |
| 1:23.3 | is now out in the open, it's off his chest, but the other spouse is now like |
| 1:28.0 | reeling. Yeah, you're just beginning to process. |
| 1:30.5 | Totally. And I think that is something that's not understood in a fair |
| 1:34.7 | recovery all the time. And that is that he knew what was going on for, in |
| 1:43.0 | essence, it was a year total because so much of it started even before the |
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