Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction and she feared the worst.

After we had called Focus on the Family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working.

I know that focused on the family was just an answered prayer.

Elissa's marriage was transformed so much so that she began sharing our resources with many other

hurting couples.

Focus on the family was really the first resource outside of our church that was truth, that was biblically grounded in truth that we kind of

were like this is something we can get behind. I'm Jim Daly working together

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Like a little bit of salt with your meals a simple act of love can really make a

difference in your marriage. I'm Jean Fuller along with my friends and

colleagues here at Focus on the Family, Greg and

Aaron Smalley. They hit up our marriage department here and we're going to

return now to a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with author, blogger, and speaker Kathy Lip, who has some very practical ideas

from her book, Happy Habits for Every Couple about building a more fun marriage.

Describe for me some of the habits. I mean in 21 days as you do this just give me a couple and then we'll play off those.

Well the cool thing about this book is we did this as a giant experiment with my church.

We got 200 couples at my church,

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