Focusing on The Good in the Early Years

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Starting your marriage off well won't happen by accident. To have a thriving relationship, it's important to develop good habits early on. To help couples start well, John, Greg and Erin weigh in with some practical ideas for focusing on the best aspects of your spouse. Featuring Bill and Pam Farrel.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:36.0	Here at the Ministry of Focus on the Family we've been reading through the
0:39.0	Gospel of Mark in our team devotions and I really love what Jesus said about
0:43.0	marriage in chapter 10 of Mark's Gospel verse 9. What God has brought
0:48.3	together man should not separate. When we see how God is involved in our
0:53.2	relationship it can really dramatically change the way we treat our spouse. I'm
0:57.5	John Fuller along with my focus colleagues Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife
1:01.4	Aaron. They lead our marriage team here and Jim Daley and I talked with
1:05.5	Bill and Pam Farrell and they love working with younger couples
1:09.1	particularly. Now to set up the conversation Jim shared how he and his wife
1:12.8	Jean traveled a lot during the first few months of their marriage and Jean
1:17.2	as an introvert would seek some alone time while Jim wanted to go with her.
1:22.7	Welcome back to focus on the family. It's great to be here. Yeah, Jim and
1:26.5	John's good to be back with you and those trips to the store where they
1:30.0	probably were lengthy shopping trips, right?
1:33.8	More than five years.
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