Building an Emotionally Healthy Marriage (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Conflict in marriage can often feel like an all-consuming and explosive cycle that eats away at peace. It’s essential to acknowledge past experiences that contribute to these negative cycles. Ron (a licensed marriage and family therapist) and his wife Nan describe how self-regulation and retraining the brain's triggers can help bring restoration and healing in a marriage. The couple shares their own journey through the tragic loss of their young son and how these principles impacted that difficult process.
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| 0:00.0 | Your marriage can be healed. |
| 0:03.3 | A hope restored marriage intensive from focus on the family can transform you and your spouse's relationship in just a few days. |
| 0:12.4 | We'll go to this thing, but this is it. |
| 0:14.7 | If this doesn't work, we're done. |
| 0:16.3 | What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage. |
| 0:23.6 | Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com. |
| 0:29.6 | What do you mean we don't talk anymore? |
| 0:35.6 | When was the last time we sat down and just had a conversation? For crying out loud, what do you think we're doing now? I could be watching the game, I could be playing the computer. Watch your silly game, okay? Fine. Alone. I usually do. Well, maybe you and your spouse know conflict like that all too well. Like you've memorized that pattern and those habits and the dance steps and every |
| 0:55.7 | time you have a disagreement or a tough issue to navigate there you are again if you can |
| 1:00.1 | relate we have some hope and practical help for you today on Focus on the Family with |
| 1:04.1 | Jim Daley I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining you know how many couples have these |
| 1:08.6 | disagreements and then hours later days later you, you know, what was our problem? |
| 1:14.1 | What were we talking about? |
| 1:15.2 | What we were fighting about? |
| 1:16.3 | You can remember the intensity of it, but oftentimes you don't even remember what the, what the noun of the trouble was. |
| 1:23.1 | You know, what was the subject? |
| 1:24.9 | And that's because we're reacting out of a dysfunction somewhere that we learned. |
| 1:31.4 | I mean, it's a trigger, right? |
| 1:32.6 | And we're pushing each other's buttons. |
| 1:34.9 | That's one of the things I am way too good at with Gene at pushing that button. |
| 1:40.3 | And I feel bad about it, but it's almost like a reflex. |
| 1:44.1 | You know, when she says something to me, I just go, bing, and then boom bad about it, but it's almost like a reflex. When she says something to me, |
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