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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this best of 2024 broadcast, Dr. Bob Paul and Tara Lalonde share their marriage counseling expertise to help couples communicate in a healthy way and build a marriage that is emotionally safe for both people. They offer some of the powerful tools taught to couples at Hope Restored marriage intensives, including the reactive cycle and heart talk.
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0:00.0 | When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective. |
0:09.6 | He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God. |
0:16.3 | And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff. |
0:20.5 | Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy, |
0:24.6 | thriving family of seven children. |
0:27.6 | We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about |
0:34.1 | kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special, |
0:42.0 | that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us. |
0:45.0 | I'm Jim Daly, and we love kids. Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's. |
0:51.4 | When you donate today, your gift will be doubled at focus on the family.com |
0:56.3 | slash gift. |
0:57.6 | And we're convinced, and we talk a lot about this, that the essence of real romance and passion |
1:12.2 | is fascination and curiosity. |
1:15.3 | Well, those are insights from Bob Paul, and he, along with Tara Lalonde, joined us earlier this |
1:21.3 | year on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to help married couples. |
1:25.4 | And this was one of our best programs of the year. We had so many people |
1:29.3 | deeply moved by what we shared that we wanted to give you another opportunity to hear it. |
1:34.1 | Thanks for joining us today. I'm John Fuller. John, yesterday we shared the first half of the show |
1:39.3 | and it covered unhealthy patterns of conflict and how you can break through them with self-care, even if your spouse isn't participating with you in that. |
1:49.2 | And if you didn't get a chance to listen, I'd recommend that you go back and hear that. |
1:53.6 | You can get the app or go to the website to get that program. |
1:57.8 | Today's show involves what boundaries look like in marriage, and it'll give you some |
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