Lonnie and Kaye were high school sweethearts, but over time the never-ending conflict and their loss of love threatened to tear their marriage apart.

When we filled out our forms with focus on the family, they asked us if we believed in a miracle if we were willing to allow a miracle to happen. And, you know, with all my heart, that's what I wanted.

Lonnie and Kay attended Hope Restored where focused counselors help heal and restore broken relationships,

giving husbands and wives godly hope for the future.

I guess what I'd say is I cherish her now more than I did before

and I have a way that I can communicate to her

that I did not have before and focus on the families given me that ability.

I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can save more families like Kay and Lonnie's every month.

Become a friend to focus on the family by calling 800 a family or donate at

focus on the family.com slash family.

It is something you can get better at starts with the decision that I'm going to lighten up

I'm not going to take myself so seriously there are going to be times in this relationship

we need to be dead serious but just like date night or an annual

abandon we need to bring the joy into it so we go through clearly all the mental and

physical and emotional benefits of this and then end with the spiritual.

Well that's Ted Cunningham and he's with us today on Focus on the Family.

Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

Hey John here's a revelation here at Focus on the Family.

We love marriage.

I hope that's obvious to everybody.

It's foundational to the family of course and we believe it's a gift from God. In fact that's one reason why we talk so much about marriage here on the program. We want to equip you to help you have the best marriage you can have, a marriage that's thriving, as we say,

thriving in Christ.

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