As a young pastor, Ryan thought he was ready to get married, but soon after the wedding, he had a big problem.

When I'm doing counseling, I tell people oftentimes that I had the worst beginning six months of a marriage that I know of,

and so I'm a qualified counselor for them.

And what really began to give me a 180 in my marriage and understanding my role as a husband was just the

ministry of focus on the family. Now, Pastor Ryan points his congregation to all the resources we

provide for families because we're still helping them today. Focus on the family empowers me in my

marriage because I can understand

that other people have gone through the same thing that I'm going through and I'm not alone

in the struggles that I face and my wife and I can gain hope from the stories that are shared

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Any addiction is isolating and pornography is especially so. And if you or someone you're close to is battling with porn,

we want to encourage you to bring it to the light.

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

They head up our marriage team here.

Greg, you helped create a no-porn marriage podcast that we have.

It lives as part of the Focus on the Family

Podcast Network, so it's accessible all the time. And in that podcast, you told part of the story

that became your story, yours and errands. Shame was a big part of what you had to struggle

with. Right.

Yeah, absolutely.

So through my own story, my own porn usage, you know, every time I just, I would feel so horrible.

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