Everybody around us this summer.

I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that a lot of folks in

their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriages fall apart and it's

scared us.

After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale.

He wanted something better for he and his wife.

That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day.

It's on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to

see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our

marriage.

I'm Jim Dele.

Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better.

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Part of the art of being a wife with your particular husband is what does it look like to have

those two things in balance so that my husband knows on his team that I believe in him, but

I'm also not afraid to step up and offer needed counsel, insight and accountability.

That's Dr. Julie Slattery describing the unique role that a wife can play in influencing

her husband and she was our guest on focusonthefamily earlier this year.

That conversation about how transformative your marriage can be was one of our most popular

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