Well, you've been married 10 or 20 or 30 years, and it can be kind of easy to take your spouse for granted. It doesn't have to be that way and today

we're going to encourage you to remind yourself about why you fell in love. I'm John Fuller,

along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron who lead the focus on the family

marriage department and Greg why is it so good to walk down memory lane and just kind of

go through that love story. Yeah there's actually a lot of really good reasons. I think it can

help us to renew our commitment when we think back for Aaron and I 32 years of

marriage and all the fun stories that have taken place.

So there's a way in which those positive memories can fill us with hope, can remind us of what

we've been through, how God has shown up, that he should always

be the hero of our love story.

And that's a powerful reminder.

Look what God has taught us.

But just the fun, it can be a way of just having so much gratitude

as I think back to what Aaron and I've been through thinking, I'm so grateful that she's walked with me through all that and that we're still

madly in love and we're best friends in spite of some of the challenges I think

it can thus give perspective as we hit new hard moments to go,

oh, but we've also been through this, this, and this and overcame that. Of course we're going to make it here. And then I think there's John a legacy components that I want our kids to hear our

love story I want them to know that a long-term marriage is possible.

And so there's so many reasons why it's a good thing that we talk about our love story.

Yeah, long-term marriage is possible and desirable.

That's right. I found myself more and more just as we've

gotten older telling the kids it's a wonderful gift to have somebody at your

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