How to Avoid Growing Apart

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

There are times where every couple doesn't feel as close as they desire. How do you handle those moments? John, Greg and Erin talk about their own experiences of working through the seasons of feeling disconnected. Featuring Dr. Josh and Christi Straub.

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0:00.0	The Stara's first pregnancy was terminated when she was 15 years old.
0:06.0	She didn't understand what was happening.
0:08.0	After three more abortions, she finally learned the truth.
0:12.0	I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human being in your stomach.
0:21.0	And I was like, wow, that's pro life.
0:24.7	Today, Dostara has six children who represent God's love and forgiveness in her life.
0:31.0	And today, Dostara is a pro-life advocate.
0:34.3	So it's focus on the family has definitely sharpened me and I'm looking forward to
0:38.8	continuing to being sharpening. I'm not embarrassed anymore about the choices that I made. I'm wanting to help.
0:47.0	I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms giving these families hope. Donate at
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1:00.0	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.
1:12.1	My wife and I have been married for over 30 slash marriage
1:18.8	My wife and I have been married for over 35 years and there have been times when it has felt like we are so
1:21.0	Distant we have drifted apart
1:25.6	It's happened because of me, sometimes her, sometimes external circumstances just kind of come in. I think it happens to most couples at
1:29.5	some point in time. I'm John Fuller along with my friends from the Focus Marriage team,
1:34.0	Greg and Aaron Smalley and Aaron you do counseling. You've been a student of
1:38.4	marriage for many many years. This is a pretty common thing, this drift.
1:41.6	Yes, absolutely and there's many different
1:43.9	causes like you're saying sometimes me sometimes it's Greg, sometimes it's a
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