You know, when we started dating and I came over to your house, I actually thought I had just walked into the perfect family's house.

It was pretty fun, wasn't it?

It was amazing, but I was deflated at the same time because I was nowhere near the perfect barren family.

But we had our baggage too.

Oh, I found that out pretty quick.

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I'm always excited when the topic is Family.

And with Family Life Today, that's a pretty important topic is Family.

Almost every day.

But this topic today is going to be specifically about Families.

And even when you bring that word up, it conjures up emotions and feelings.

I know that the weekend to remember, and we've been speaking at that for 30 years.

30 years, some years, yeah.

And so at the beginning, when we split up into men and women's sessions, I'll say to the women,

okay, I'm going to say a word, and I want you just to blurred out what comes to your mind when I say this word.

And the first word I say is mom.

And so women will start responding with the highest of praise.

Oh, amazing, wonderful, present, and then you'll have absent, abandoned.

You know, so you have these highs and lows.

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