Five Ways to Grow Closer as a Couple (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Strong and healthy marriages don’t need big and expensive romantic events. Oftentimes it’s the simple things spouses do for each other every day like nurturing their relationship, navigating conflict well, accepting each other differences, and finding ways to grow in intimacy with each other.
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| 0:00.0 | As a young pastor, Ryan thought he was ready to get married, but soon after the wedding, he had a big problem. |
| 0:07.0 | When I'm doing counseling, I tell people oftentimes that I had the worst beginning six months of a marriage that I know of, |
| 0:13.0 | and so I'm a qualified counselor for them. |
| 0:17.0 | And what really began to give me a 180 in my marriage and understanding my role as a husband was just the |
| 0:24.1 | ministry of focus on the family. Now, Pastor Ryan points his congregation to all the resources we |
| 0:31.1 | provide for families because we're still helping them today. Focus on the family empowers me in my |
| 0:37.1 | marriage because I can understand |
| 0:39.2 | that other people have gone through the same thing that I'm going through and I'm not alone |
| 0:42.8 | in the struggles that I face and my wife and I can gain hope from the stories that are shared |
| 0:48.3 | on air. I'm Jim Daly. Help us give families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled at |
| 0:56.1 | Focus on thefamily.com slash gift. |
| 1:02.4 | The biggest things I do to be close to my spouse would be making sure that my attachment with |
| 1:07.9 | Christ is solid, that I'm spending time with him regularly so that it can |
| 1:12.7 | overflow into my marriage. We never keep secrets from each other. We have a date night every Friday. |
| 1:19.5 | I think in order for us to stay close is make sure that we are in prayer with each other and that we |
| 1:24.8 | are doing a devotion every single day to share where we really are in life. |
| 1:29.9 | Now that school is back in session, my wife and I like to get together for lunch every day as a way to stay |
| 1:35.7 | connected. I really take him serious and listen to what he has to say to hear his words instead of |
| 1:43.8 | waiting to interject what I want to say. |
| 1:46.5 | What do you think? Those sound like some great ideas for improving or enhancing your |
| 1:51.6 | relationship with your spouse. Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore |
| 1:56.1 | some ideas like that to help you keep your marriage strong and healthy for a lifetime. |
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