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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Before an Affair Takes Place

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Infidelity does tremendous damage to a marriage, but it doesn't have to be the end of your story. John and the Smalley's address how many couples have faced this crisis. Then, Jim Daly chats with Pastor Rick Bulman and his wife Tiffany about their story before she had an affair.

 

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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.

0:07.0

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

0:12.0

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know,

0:17.0

struggles, that resources that they suggested.

0:22.0

They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame,

0:26.0

walking me through that so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom.

0:31.0

So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all with that focus on the family.

0:37.0

I'm Jim Daily. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you,

0:41.0

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

0:44.0

and we invite you to join our family strengthening team.

0:47.0

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0:50.0

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0:54.0

or visit focus on the family dot com slash gift.

1:06.0

We're going to talk today about a pretty serious subject and that is affairs

1:10.0

and how those affect marriage.

1:12.0

I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron

1:15.0

and they lead the focus on the family marriage department.

1:18.0

Aaron, there are a lot of stats out there

1:21.0

and I'm not sure we can believe all of them,

1:24.0

but what's your take on how frequent infidelity occurs in marriage?

1:30.0

It is interesting because the research is difficult to find.

1:35.0

It's difficult to find reliable research that is based on statistical validation.

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