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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Building Trust & Friendship

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Just like your house needs a solid foundation, your marriage needs trust. Dr. Henry Cloud joins Jim Daly to share about why showing empathy is required for building trust. Then, Erin Smalley explains why trust is necessary for having a deeper friendship with your spouse.

 

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0:00.0

Is your marriage struggling? Communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve?

0:07.6

Well, there's still hope. Hope restored marriage intensives by focus on the family helps couples step away from daily life and focus fully on rebuilding their relationship.

0:17.9

And right now, through the Marriage initiative, Hope Restored is investing

0:21.5

$1,000 toward every marriage intensive.

0:25.1

Visit hoperestored.com slash marriage dash investment.

0:34.7

Recently we've had some work done on our house and there's a concrete slab and I was very

0:40.2

curious if the tile on top of that slab was breaking because the slab was bad.

0:45.5

Oh, I was relieved.

0:46.6

The foundation is fine.

0:48.4

So that's good.

0:49.3

We can fix the tile cosmetically because there's a good foundation.

0:53.5

A good foundation is important for trust,

0:56.1

and in a relationship, that's everything. Today we're talking about trust in your marriage,

1:01.6

and I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the Focus Marriage team.

1:06.9

Let's jump into a conversation focus on the family president Jim Daly had with Dr. Henry

1:11.5

Cloud.

1:12.4

He has co-authored the book, Boundaries and all the subsequent titles related to boundaries.

1:18.3

And a key element in boundary setting is trust.

1:21.1

Henry, you've laid out five essentials of trust.

1:24.7

And I want to kind of unpack those with you.

1:27.1

So the first is this idea of trust. And I want to kind of unpack those with you. So the first is this idea of

1:29.8

understanding. So how does the understanding lead or take away from trust? Well, it actually is

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