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You know there are seasons in your marriage when you're shining like

bright colors in the fall but other times it's like the leaves that were once

so beautiful have fallen off and they've dried up. How do you get through those

seasons? I'm John Fuller joined today by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Erin and

Aaron every marriage goes through both of those kinds of seasons, right?

Absolutely.

If you've been married over, well, what would you say?

Two weeks?

That you know.

The leaves are dried up. Okay, so maybe not two weeks. that you know that there

Okay, so maybe not two weeks maybe two years whatever We all go through these shifting seasons and it's you know first Corinthians 728 I love this verse that it says those who

marry will face many troubles will and so there's going to be those seasons of

trouble and what do you do during those seasons and then add in just the routine of being

married and complacency can sometimes seep in as well.

So you have the seasons of trouble, routine, complacency, and then the relationship can end up feeling somewhat boring.

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