Dealing with Your Past

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We all have something from our childhood that can negatively affect our marriage. Whether it was a painful event or an unhealthy habit, we must deal with it. Greg and Erin talk with John about how they've learned to deal with their pasts. Featuring Milan and Kay Yerkovich.

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0:00.0	Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction and she feared the worst.
0:06.5	After we had called Focus on the Family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working.
0:16.4	I know that focused on the family was just an answered prayer.
0:19.8	Elissa's marriage was transformed so much so that she began sharing our resources with many other
0:26.0	hurting couples.
0:27.0	Focus on the family was really the first resource outside of our church that was truth, that was biblically grounded in truth that we kind of
0:37.8	were like this is something we can get behind. I'm Jim Daly working together
0:42.4	this season we can give families hope please consider a generous
0:47.0	donation today and your gift will be doubled our number is 800 a family or visit Focus on the family.
0:55.0	dot com slash gift.
0:57.0	Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more
1:06.3	relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast.
1:12.0	We all have something from our past. slash marriage if we don't deal with those things they can really impact our marriages.
1:25.0	I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Er in Smalley they're in charge of our marriage
1:29.2	department here at Focus on the Family and I wonder I mean you both work with couples how often do you
1:35.2	meet a couple they're struggling and it really is because there's something in
1:40.5	the past they just haven't been able to resolve? I would say every
1:44.9	single day I meet someone but of course I'm a marriage counselor so people
1:49.3	coming to me usually have something that's not working both individually and
1:54.4	relationally and I can even say today I worked with a couple who she has
1:59.0	finally gotten to that place of letting her wall down and trusting because of her past into that and it's just a beautiful thing to see people heal as they really take a look at what's in my past.
2:16.0	What's keeping me guarded or keeping me attacking or keeping me withdrawing whatever it is.
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