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Well, when you were first together as a couple, you were so attracted to each

other. You just had to spend all of your time together. But passion can

sometimes diminish. Often it does. And then what do you do? I'm John Fuller

along with counselors and authors and focus on the family staff members.

Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron and Greg and the research that you've done.

And I still appreciate this about you. You do a lot of research. What have

you seen about how long it takes for marriages to kind of lose that spark of

attraction? Yeah, interestingly enough, the researchers discovered that kind of

that honeymoon phase, you know, everything is perfect. We see everything perfect.

Kind of wears off after about 30 months. As a matter of fact, one poll that they

did online found that it lasts exactly two years, six months in 25 days into

marriage. Okay, well, there's the sign. So if you've been married longer than

that, listen in with acute ears here. In the point is that there's always going to

be a slow, natural fade, especially within that area of kind of that passion,

that intimacy and all of that, that we just need to recognize happens as we get

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