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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Confessing the Embarrassing Secret

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you're struggling with pornography, it can be easy to say to yourself, "I'll never tell someone." However, true healing for your marriage happens when you bring a secret into the light. John, Erin and Greg explain why confessing a porn problem is important, and what to do if you admitted you need help, but the confession didn't go well. Featuring Mrs. Rosie Makinney.


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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

Well here at Focus on the Family, our counseling team takes a lot of phone calls

0:40.0

and one of the most common really significant struggle in life has to do with

0:44.5

pornography. And a lot of folks who call us have been at a place of just

0:50.9

denials thinking I could never tell anyone what's going on. But when they bring

0:56.8

that pattern, that habit to the light, God does some remarkable healing. I'm

1:02.8

John Fuller joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron Smalley. They lead our

1:07.1

marriage team. And Greg, this is something that needs to be talked about for

1:13.2

those who are listening that have never shared a struggle with pornography with

1:17.0

their spouse. Should they start there or is there maybe a different place to go?

1:21.3

Yeah, as long as the goal is that I'm for sure going to talk to my spouse about

1:26.4

this, I actually would encourage someone to go to a very safe mentor, a safe

1:33.7

friend, a counselor, as a way to actually practice rehearsals. Yeah, really

1:40.4

it's a it's a rehearsal to share because what can happen is that you can get

1:45.8

good feedback. Maybe you know, you seem super shifty or you're not really

1:51.0

given good details or I'm confused by what you're telling me or it sounds like

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