Come Out of Hiding

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

When things aren't going well in your marriage, having supportive friends is one of the best blessings you can have. None of us are meant to go through life isolated and alone. John talks with Greg and Erin about how they try to maintain community amidst their busy schedules. Featuring Dr. Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:35.8	One of the worst mistakes a couple can make is to pretend that everything is
0:39.8	okay, even though they both know it's not. Problems left undelt with our
0:45.1	recipe for disaster. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smolley and Mrs.
0:50.9	Aaron Smolley and they lead our marriage department together here at the
0:55.0	ministry. Greg, we need to bring problems into the light, but it's scary to do
1:00.2	that. Yeah, we talk about this frequently on the show, which is every time you
1:05.9	bury an emotion, you bury it alive. So it's going to work itself out. It will
1:12.5	bubble up. It's just a guarantee. You can't bury those and then they're buried in
1:16.6	dead. When I was getting my doctorates, we had some friends that you know
1:22.9	good friends hung out support group mean just all this and we thought
1:26.9	everything was going great. They look great. And all of a sudden they told us
1:30.5	one day that they're getting divorced. And it really shocked us like it was
1:35.2	really hard to even process. How was this, you know, left in the dark? Why
1:40.7	were you guys suffering in silence? Even in the midst of being like in a small
1:45.8	group with them, it was so sad to watch them go through that and just be
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