After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next.

Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family.

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that, resources

that they suggested.

They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that

so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom.

So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all with that focus on the family.

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If you want to really have a healthy marital relationship, you have to have open

communication and that applies to your sex life as well.

I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and we're going to be

addressing how you and your spouse can talk about sex in ways that aren't scary but

that will actually strengthen your relationship.

Jim Daly and I had a chance to talk to Cliff and Joyce Penner about this.

Here's part of that conversation.

Let me turn a little corner here.

You want to empower women to lead sexually now everybody just

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