Choosing Marriage: Debra Fileta
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Podcast Network
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Any married person will tell you there's a significant difference between what you expect marriage to be like and what marriage is...actually...like. Author Debra Fileta proposes that, while marriage may be challenging, it's worth the beauty on the other side.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, a lot of our listeners know how great our marriage started out. |
| 0:05.0 | It did start out great. |
| 0:06.2 | It was great for about... |
| 0:07.2 | Because you are great. |
| 0:08.7 | Well, I mean for a month. |
| 0:10.5 | It didn't last. |
| 0:11.6 | Because they've heard our story. I mean we're laughing now because we're in year 41 but at the moment at the moment I thought there is nobody better in the world than Dave Wilson. |
| 0:23.5 | I love those moments when you thought that. |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah, it didn't last long. |
| 0:27.5 | You didn't think that for two months. |
| 0:29.0 | Because three months. |
| 0:30.0 | No, I thought it for five months. |
| 0:32.0 | Okay. And then it's five months. Okay. |
| 0:33.0 | And then it's six months I said marrying you was the biggest mistake of my life. |
| 0:36.7 | No, you yelled that. |
| 0:38.0 | That was a great moment in our marriage. |
| 0:39.7 | Yeah. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are |
| 0:53.9 | Dave and Ann Wilson. You can find us at familylife today.com. This is family life |
| 0:59.2 | today. The thing is I feel like most people are unprepared going into marriage of what the reality will be like and so they |
| 1:15.8 | get to the point where we were and maybe it's year one maybe it's year 20 but at some point |
| 1:21.7 | they think what in the world has happened and they don't |
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