Four Key Decisions for Loving Your Spouse for Life

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Marriage—even with its challenges—doesn’t have to be hard! Arlene Pellicane looks at four key decisions you can make to strengthen your marriage and make your relationship with your spouse easier. When you establish solid ground rules, give thanks every day, seek to serve each other, and remember to have fun together, you can have a thriving marriage!

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0:00.0	When you first get married, you're both all in.
0:08.8	Like we are all in.
0:10.6	But then the years go by.
0:12.6	You stop having fun together.
0:14.2	You stop being grateful.
0:15.3	You stop serving each other.
0:16.6	You're like, we don't need rules.
0:17.8	We got this.
0:18.8	And all of a sudden you realize one of us is not showing up in the same way that the other one is showing up.
0:24.3	So there's a humility that needs to come to say, you know what?
0:27.1	I'm going to show up to my marriage.
0:29.3	And even if I feel like, well, I'm going to wait for him or her to show up first, no.
0:34.5	Your attitude is I'm going to be the one.
0:37.3	That's Arlene Pelican, and she joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
0:41.8	I'm John Fuller.
0:42.7	John, it's Valentine's Day, which means it's a great day to celebrate marriage, right?
0:46.8	Yeah, absolutely.
0:47.2	Have you thought of something to do tonight?
0:48.7	I have been planning, Jim.
0:50.1	I'm not going to reveal my plans here nationally. I'm kind of projecting because I didn't think of something yet.
0:55.2	You are so good at spontaneous, though.
0:57.0	Spontaneous is better.
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