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🗓️ 22 July 2025
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Have you ever reached a point in marriage where you didn't think you'd make it? John asks Greg Smalley about how he and Erin persevered through a challenging time in their relationship. Plus, Jim Daly talks to Dr. Bob Paul and Tara Lalonde on what helps couples go the distance in their marriage.
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0:31.6 | Well, as you're scrolling through social media, you're going to see some milestone anniversaries that couples post. |
0:41.6 | It's, oh, five years, ten years, 25 years. |
0:44.7 | These are wonderful highlights, but it doesn't show you that moment where maybe they kind of hit the rocks and wondered, are we going to make it? |
0:53.3 | I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage team here hit the rocks and wondered, are we going to make it? I'm John Fuller, along with |
0:54.7 | Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage team here at the ministry. And Greg and Aaron, |
0:59.3 | I don't want to be dramatic, but you've had some rocks along the way, and you've been pretty |
1:03.9 | transparent about those. Give us a moment or two where you wondered, is this going to make it? |
1:09.7 | Yeah, I would see, John, there probably hasn't been a time that I thought, man, is this going to make it yeah I would see John that |
1:10.9 | there there probably hasn't been a time that I thought man we're gonna get |
1:15.0 | divorced but I wasn't sure that Aaron wanted to stay with me and I think one time |
1:22.8 | in particular we've shared that we really struggled with conflict and just learning how to manage |
1:29.1 | conflict. And there was one time that we were on a family vacation, I think we were in like |
1:35.5 | a Galveston, Texas or somewhere down there. And it was all of my extended family. It was kind of like a little mini reunion. |
1:46.6 | And I could not even tell you the details. |
1:49.6 | I'm sure I've blocked it out. |
1:51.1 | But something, right? |
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