Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction and she feared the worst.

After we had called Focus on the Family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working.

I know that focused on the family was just an answered prayer.

Elissa's marriage was transformed so much so that she began sharing our resources with many other

hurting couples.

Focus on the family was really the first resource outside of our church that was truth, that was biblically grounded in truth that we kind of

were like this is something we can get behind. I'm Jim Daly working together

this season we can give families hope please consider a generous

donation today and your gift will be doubled our number is 800 a family or visit focus on the family.com slash gift. Well, some good friends of ours had a child who passed away and it was an awful, awful sorrow, and you might know somebody who's walked through that journey.

We're going to talk today about how a marriage can survive that kind of a traumatic loss.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife

Aaron and they lead the focus on the family marriage team and Greg I wonder if you

know a couple or if you've had the privilege of walking a couple through that kind of a painful situation.

Absolutely. Our good friends Sean and Christina Stover went through this exact thing.

Their child survived maybe two, three days after his birth.

And it was so painful just to watch them walk through this.

And yet, I remember one time Meer and I were out to dinner with

them and just said man what have you guys learned you know years now and it was really

powerful to hear them talk about.

We kept telling each other, we love each other, we're with each other,

and yet we don't know how to walk this thing out.

And let's just let our hearts grieve as our hearts need

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