Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll be talking about some of the good things and the potential bad things that can affect your marriage.

I'm John Fuller and to get a start at Jim let's review some inspirational quotes for

married couples for example a great marriage is not when the perfect couple

comes together it's when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

I think we could just sit right there and think about that for a minute.

But another one is at the end of the day you can either focus on what's pulling you apart

or what's keeping you together.

That's good. That's good.

How about this one?

A quote that couples might want to put on the wall.

Against all odds and despite all obstacles,

we are going to make it.

We're committed.

And here's one from our guest today, Dave Willis, who said

your marriage will not be defined by the size of your struggles but the size of

your commitment to overcome the struggles together. And I really like that. I think the is a healthy way to look at

marital strife indeed you know we often say this but it's worth repeating again and

again a good marriage doesn't happen you got to work toward that and that should be a

goal all of us can be a little lazy at times it's kind of like you know I practiced I

did the two a days now we're in the season I don't need to work out that

hard you know for all of us sports fanatics that's the analysis we're in the season, I don't need to work out that hard.

You know, for all of a sports fanatics,

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