Choosing Right When Your Spouse Chooses Wrong (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When you and your spouse face a challenge, how you respond can mean the difference between solving the problem or letting it cause weeks of tension. Through God's grace, you can respond to problems in a way that's helpful for your marriage. Greg and Erin share with John about how they've learned to show each other grace when things aren't perfect.
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| 0:00.0 | After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next. |
| 0:07.0 | Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family. |
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| 0:19.5 | that they suggested. |
| 0:22.3 | They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that |
| 0:27.3 | so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom. |
| 0:31.0 | So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all with that focus on the family. |
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| 0:58.7 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
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| 1:12.0 | Well fairy tales are wonderful stories usually with some sort of happily ever after ending, |
| 1:18.0 | but what happens when it's your marriage? |
| 1:22.0 | It's not a fairy tale and you're not living happily ever |
| 1:24.4 | after. I'm John Fuller and today we'll explore some challenges in the marriage |
| 1:29.4 | relationship and how to navigate those with God's grace and his love. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley. |
| 1:36.0 | They have together counseled hundreds and hundreds of couples |
| 1:40.0 | in struggling marriages. |
| 1:42.0 | And Aaron, there are couples, I I'm sure who walk in your door |
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