Best of 2024: Loving the Spouse God Gave You
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 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 | So the circumstances were that I had just given my life to Christ after having been a runaway, |
| 0:07.0 | drug abuser, sexually abused, in and out of mental institutions with a single mom and kind of a distant father. |
| 0:15.0 | Anne's life was a mess. She didn't know the first thing about how to be a good wife or mother. |
| 0:21.3 | So focused on the family was like mana to me. Every day, I needed wisdom. I needed guidance. |
| 0:28.8 | I needed the lessons and the teaching that came every day from 11 to 1130 into my kitchen. |
| 0:36.5 | And I know today that my life has changed because of |
| 0:39.6 | Focus on the Family. I'm Jim Daly. Working together, we can give families hope and equip more |
| 0:46.4 | parents like Anne. And thanks to a special match right now, any gift you send will be doubled. Call 800 |
| 0:53.4 | A Family or donate at FocusOn the family.com slash gift. |
| 1:07.6 | We are forever changed and tremendously grateful for the tools given to us to change our stormy |
| 1:13.8 | relationship into a peaceful calm. |
| 1:16.3 | What a gift God has given us here in a safe environment with counselors and staff who are |
| 1:20.6 | totally walking in a close relationship with Christ. |
| 1:23.8 | Miracles happen. |
| 1:25.8 | Those were comments of someone whose marriage was transformed through hope restored. |
| 1:30.3 | Focus on the family's marriage intensives. |
| 1:33.1 | Marriage transformation is the topic of the show today. |
| 1:36.0 | This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:39.0 | John, this conversation is so important because marriage is the foundation of the family. |
| 1:43.3 | I think we're seeing that now |
| 1:44.7 | throughout the culture and everyone goes through difficult seasons of life, which can cause |
| 1:49.9 | married couples to become disconnected and, in the worst case, divorced. Whatever stage of the |
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