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Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, Pastor Doug Fields brings some hope for your marriage.

So tension and conflict is not a sign, friends. It's not a sign that your marriage is broken. It's a sign your marriage is real.

Some interesting insights. And welcome to the show.

I'm John Fuller.

Well, John, we've heard lots of marriage experts talk about the fact that the initial thrill

of a relationship, that infatuation stage, only lasts about 18 to 24 months.

So when that infatuation wanes, if you've gotten married, you might wonder whether

you married the wrong person. And today's speaker, Pastor Doug Fields, wants to equip you to make it

through that transition and create a firm foundation for a lifelong union. That's the way it should work.

And he has great advice for singles who are looking forward to marriage as well. Here now is Doug Fields speaking at Mariners Church in Irvine,

California on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. We're in a series called Proverbs for your

love life where our pastor has done a masterful job of taking

cultural proverbs like, follow your heart, or let love find you, or he or she is my soulmate,

and then turning us to the scriptures to see what God's word actually says in the book of Proverbs.

Now, next week is on intimacy, which I would have rather taught next week, but instead,

we're talking about the popular cultural proverb to just basically cut difficult people

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