Five More Ways to Grow Closer as a Couple (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Loving and happy marriages are built on the simplest of things — commitment, accepting each other’s differences, selflessness, treating each other in an understanding way, and resiliency. Jim and Jean Daly and Greg and Erin Smalley share insights, humor and wonderful stories about what makes marriage work well.

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0:00.0	Because at the end of my life, and I want, I want to, my hope is that Aaron will be able to say,
0:06.4	you know what, Greg made a difference in my life. Like being married to Greg made a difference
0:11.7	in a good way. Yeah. That's a good goal. And vice versa. I, that's my goal is to know that I made a difference in
0:20.4	your life and improved your life.
0:23.8	Well, that's part of a panel discussion that we introduced last time on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
0:29.7	I'm John Fuller, and we got lots of good marriage advice and encouragement from our guests, Gene Daly and her husband, Jim, of course, along with Greg and
0:38.2	Niren Smalley.
0:39.3	John, it was, I thought, a great conversation last time, exploring themes like navigating
0:44.2	our differences as couples, the value of mentoring, and why it's important to have a long
0:50.1	view of marriage.
0:51.4	It kind of slows the burn of anger or disagreement down quite a bit.
0:56.2	Gene and I had so much fun trading stories and insights with Greg and Aaron. The Smalley's
1:01.4	head up our marriage team here at Focus, and I really appreciate the wisdom they have for
1:06.2	husbands and wives. If you missed the conversation last time, get an audio copy from us or watch the entire
1:13.0	episode on YouTube, or better yet, get the focus on the family app for your smartphone so you can
1:18.5	access amazing content whenever you want. Yeah, and the source material for this conversation
1:24.6	came from a book that Jim, you've written called The Healthy Marriage Devotional
1:28.9	365 daily inspirations to bring you closer together. You can learn more about that book
1:35.3	and all the resources we have to help strengthen your marriage in the show notes. And now the
1:41.4	continuation of that roundtable conversation between Jim and Gene Daily and Greg and Aaron Smalley on today's Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
1:50.8	All right. Let's explore some of the things that married couples can do to improve their relationship. That's the whole idea here, right? One is certainly do a devotion together,
2:06.8	and we've got that great resource for everybody. But you've written a book, Greg, about tools.
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