Best of 2023: How to Stay Crazy In Love With Your Spouse (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this best of 2023 broadcast, Greg and Erin Smalley discuss the importance of couples prioritizing time together, connecting on a deeper emotional level. They stress the importance of physical intimacy in marriage; urging men to care for their wives and encouraging women to “prepare” themselves for intimacy. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.5 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 0:37.0 | Something me and my spouse do is we pray together and also pray for each other. Yeah, I think the thing that's helped our marriage the best is going to bed at the same time every night. |
| 0:42.0 | The way that I stay in love with my spouse is we have a date night every single week. |
| 0:47.0 | Something I try to do with my wife is whenever she has an idea about how to do something, |
| 0:52.0 | I make sure that I don't shut her down right away. I want to make |
| 0:55.4 | sure that she feels heard. We like to joke around with each other and tease each other helps |
| 1:00.6 | us keep tough situations light-hearted. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, how about you? Do you think any of those ideas will work in your marriage? |
| 1:07.0 | Today, on this Best of 2023 episode of Focus on the Family, we'll be reviewing some effective ways that you can enhance |
| 1:14.3 | your relationship with your spouse. I'm John Fuller and your host is |
| 1:18.2 | focused president and author Jim Daly. John earlier this year around Valentine's Day you and I recorded a conversation |
| 1:25.0 | with our colleagues Dr. Greg and Aaron Smalley about what it takes to build a lifelong |
| 1:29.8 | love in marriage a good target. This program was a big hit with the |
| 1:35.4 | listeners and we're going to come back to it again today. Greg and Aaron would be |
| 1:40.4 | quick to admit that loving marriages don't just happen. You need a lot of commitment and |
| 1:45.1 | grace and forgiveness and seeking God's best. Again, another good formula for a fantastic marriage. |
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