Having Couple Friends
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Your spouse might be your best friend, but doing life with other couples can make your marriage even stronger. None of us are meant to go through life and marriage alone. Greg and Erin talk with John about the difference that friends have made in their marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next. |
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| 0:58.7 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | So if you haven't been to see the show no... slash marriage |
| 1:16.7 | podcast. |
| 1:17.7 | lately let me encourage you to check them out. |
| 1:19.5 | We have beefed them up. |
| 1:21.3 | They are more robust and I think you'll find a lot of great help not |
| 1:24.7 | only from today's show but also for past episodes and further resources to help you |
| 1:30.1 | in your marriage. |
| 1:32.6 | In the Old Testament Book of Proverbs, a good friendship is compared to iron sharpening iron. |
| 1:39.0 | The concept is we need good friends to keep us sharp, to keep us going, and as a married couple, it's really |
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