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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Developing a Strong Partnership

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Your marriage needs a strong partnership to function well. Encouraging each other can go a long way to strengthening your relationship. John speaks with Greg and Erin about how they've learned to encourage each other's strengths. Featuring Pastor Kevin Thompson.

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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, someone observed that marriage is like a team sport because you and your

0:39.8

spouse have different strengths so you can compliment each other. And that was

0:43.6

God's design. And certainly my wife and I are different. And the longer we've

0:49.0

been married, the more those differences seem pronounced. I don't know if it's

0:51.8

because we're getting old and cranky about it all. But Dina is a very detailed

0:56.4

oriented person. God knows I need somebody to watch the details. I just fly

1:01.6

fast. I'm a big picture guy. I need the details. And she brings that in spades.

1:07.1

I'm so grateful for that. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Aaron

1:11.0

Smolley. And you two are built differently. You compliment each other

1:15.0

beautifully off the top of your head. Greg, what are some differences? Yeah,

1:19.5

there's so many. But one of my very favorites, Aaron, is I so appreciate your

1:24.8

work ethic. And I know that doesn't sound super romantic. But truly, I'm so

1:30.7

blessed. I'm blown away. It just you're such a hard worker. And your work and

1:36.3

commitment to our family to help provide for what our family needs. I just

1:41.4

I'm so thankful that you are such an amazingly hard worker. You know, it's

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