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Focus on Marriage Podcast

After Confronting His Porn Problem

Focus on Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A porn addiction can do serious damage to a marriage. Once it's uncovered, how does a couple find healing? Jim Daly interviews Mark and Rosie Makinney about some of the steps they took after learning Mark was addicted to porn. Plus, John Fuller and Erin Smalley offer hope to couples who find out one or both spouses have a problem with pornography.

 

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0:00.0

After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next.

0:06.9

Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family.

0:11.2

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that resources that they

0:20.0

suggested, they helped me tremendously in getting over guilt

0:24.8

and shame, walking me through that so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good

0:29.7

mom. So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all without focus on the family.

0:36.9

I'm Jim Daly.

0:38.2

Thanks to the generosity of friends like you,

0:40.8

we're able to give new hope to families like Shelly's,

0:43.9

and we invite you to join our family strengthening team.

0:47.4

If you donate today, your gift will be doubled.

0:50.1

Please call 800 the letter A in the word family,

0:54.0

or visit focus on the family.com slash gift.

1:01.0

A secret pornography addiction is one of the most harmful things that can happen in a marriage.

1:10.8

After it's discovered,

1:12.1

what do you do? How do you recover? If you recover. I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his

1:18.5

wife, Aaron, and they lead the Focus on the Family Marriage Department. Now, Focus President

1:23.2

Jim Daly spoke with Mark and Rosie McKinney. And in a previous episode, McKinney shared how Rosie confronted Mark after she found out he was

1:31.9

addicted to porn.

1:33.3

And here's more of their story.

1:35.1

In that regard, when Rosie laid down that ultimatum, I mean, it's either porn or me, you pick.

1:40.8

How'd you react to that?

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