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If there's one long slash marriage mission. And if that's something you've been wondering about, stay tuned because we're going to talk about that today. I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and we're going to hear from Lucille Williams who wrote a book called From Me To We, a Premarital Guide for the bride and groom to be.

Lucille does marriage and premarital counseling and coaching and is really passionate

about preparing couples to have a good marriage and here she is now

talking with Jim Daly and me. Let's talk as a parent. John you've got 20

something's I've got a 17 and 15 year old they're the corner. I don't know when they're going to get

married. We hope that they do obviously unless they want to pursue the Lord as a single and

that's an honorable thing. So many singles that listen to focus on the family often write us or email us and say don't forget us you know we want to belong to and I'm

recognizing that that's an admirable thing but many people that listen to focus on the family are married people.

And talk about that as a parent of our young adults who are going to get married sometime in the next three to five years probably

maybe sooner for you John hope so how can we prepare them for married life what kind of

conversations do we have with them? It's a little

daunting. I'm talking to Trenton Troy about it, but I don't know that I've had the

right conversations with them other than about keeping themselves pure for marriage and for their future spouse.

Yeah, those are tough conversations.

What happens is, you know, we fall in love and it's like we're on drugs and you cannot think straight.

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