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Well, Mark and Grace Driscoll here for Real Marriage, and we're doing a series regarding an overview

of a study that Focus on the Family did, and they did an excellent job of measuring marriage

health in America specifically, and they have contributed to a lot of marriage health in America specifically and they have contributed to a lot of

marriage health and diagnosing of unhealth and how to help the people that are in an

unhealthy place over the years and so we're thankful for that and we're going to talk about

divorce and why it happens some of the the reasons, how to avoid it.

And then in the last one, it'll be hopeful and joyful.

Yes.

And here's how to fix it. So, yeah, based on their study, 21% of marriages are in a state of crisis, meaning it's an emergency.

This is not a, hey, we should pray about making some adjustments or we should think about talking

to somebody like the time is now.

And here, of those that are 21% marriages in crisis, here's kind of the data. So if you're hearing this,

and it's like, okay, are we in crisis? So 74% of marriages, they would say, are healthy. And that can be

from, you know, barely functional to flourishing. There's a wide range there. But crisis, when you start to

see these things or experience these things in your marriage, they should be like the check

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