From a Divorce Attorney’s Perspective
Focus on Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The pain of divorce is regarded as one of the hardest things a person can face. Carey and Toni Nieuwhof join Jim Daly to share about ways they've seen divorce negatively impact others. Also, John, Greg and Erin offer hope to couples who've been in a desparate season for a long time.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, some time ago a friend approached me and admitted that he had had an affair and he was really praying that his wife, who didn't know yet at the time, would receive the news |
| 0:15.7 | with an eye toward preserving the marriage despite his infidelity. |
| 0:20.0 | There are so many marriages in which the couple is struggling and if that's you hang on we have some hope for you today |
| 0:26.3 | I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Aaron Smalley who lead our marriage team here at the ministry and |
| 0:31.8 | Aaron divorce is complicated is our marriage |
| 0:33.4 | is complicated, isn't it? |
| 0:35.6 | It sure is. |
| 0:36.9 | It sure is. |
| 0:37.4 | So often I'll be sitting with a couple that maybe both had been previously divorced and they're happy in their |
| 0:44.2 | current marriage but they will look back and say I should have done more and |
| 0:48.4 | granted here we are and I'm working on this marriage and I'm happy now but back then I see there could have been more fight and we could have done more because what transpired after that was like a bomb going off. Now granted there are times that there's |
| 1:05.2 | abuse in marriage or a consistent pattern of poor, poor behavior, addiction and |
| 1:12.0 | it's important to get professional help and to maybe enter |
| 1:16.7 | into a season of separation and you know looking at evaluating the marriage are things going to change sometimes couples don't take that |
| 1:26.6 | period of waiting just to evaluate what's happening here and is God gonna to do a miracle? And that's what I love about |
| 1:35.4 | our program Hope Restored is that the amazing thing when Greg and I used to sit |
| 1:40.3 | with couples during the marriage intensives, we saw miracles. We saw God do things |
| 1:45.8 | that we could never have imagined. And it's an amazing thing. So just to encourage anyone |
| 1:52.3 | who's listening that, you you know if you're contemplating you know get some help and you know turn to the Lord and talk to him about it |
| 2:00.6 | attend a marriage intensive you never know what God is going to do. |
| 2:04.1 | Yeah, have hope and we're going to turn a corner now and listen to a conversation between |
| 2:09.8 | Focus President Jim Daly and Carrie and Tony Newhoff and their marriage almost didn't make it. |
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