Hi, I'm Erin Smolley.

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So if you want biblical guidance on your journey, check out our podcast, Crazy Little Thing

Called Marriage, which I host with my husband, Dr. Greg Smolley.

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If somebody gives you a nicely wrapped gift and you open it up, you're expecting something

that you really want and sometimes what's in the package is a gift but it's hard.

It's not what you expected.

We've been talking about storms that you might go through as a couple and sometimes you

get a wonderful gift like a newborn child or a new job and it's hard.

It's a gift but it's also very difficult and it stresses the relationship.

How do you handle that?

Well, we're going to talk about it today on the show.

I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife, Erin.

They lead the focus marriage department and Erin, sometimes blessings come with a burden.

And so how do you encourage couples to be realistic about changes?

It might be that one or both of them are just looking at the good things without paying

attention to some of the responsibilities and difficulties that might come along with

that package.

It's such a great question because so often we will go through these things in life and

we want to not have any negative feelings.

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