Today we're going to hear about good habits and how those can lead to happiness in your

marriage.

I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleagues Aaron and Greg Smalley and recently focused

on the family president Jim Daly spoke with Dr. Randy Schrader.

Randy was a seminary professor for 25 years and he teaches marital counseling.

Let's go ahead and listen in.

Dr. Randy, it's great to have you back.

Well, it's great to be back and I look forward to providing simple yet very effective

habits for couples to improve and strengthen their marriage.

I love what you've said on earlier programs that we've done.

You've written a book for parenting and a book on marital happiness here that we're

going to talk about.

Again, today we did a previous program on this but we're going to cover some of the

other information here.

What you basically said, you structured these books as a counselor would engage with

a client and that people can read these books and they're going to get all the information

that you would have spent thousands of dollars on in your counseling settings and that's

a great way to look at that.

Well, it is free counseling and like John said earlier, I was a professor for 25 years

at a seminary and taught marriage counseling and premarital counseling and that information

is in the book and the simple habits for mental happiness looks, it's the only marriage

book out there that looks at all seven areas of a marriage from how do you apologize to

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