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Well, when you met your now spouse, way back when, maybe it was last year or 30 or 40 years ago, was it love at first sight or did things need to kind of percolate a bit?

We're going to be talking about attraction and keeping that level of initial attraction alive. Can you?

I'm John Fuller, along with our marriage team leaders

here, Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron, and we're going to listen now to a conversation that

focused on the family president Jim Daly had on his show. He spoke with Deborah Faleta about the

seasons of marriage, and here's Deborah explaining the spring season.

Deborah let's dive into spring as the first of the season descriptions. You identify it

as the season of attraction. I think that's when everybody is coupling up whether it's

the birds or the people. You've got a great story about when you and John.

I think you were holding hands for the first time.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, you know, spring is this season when affection is high.

Emotions are, you know, really intense.

That's kind of how you define that season, usually in the beginning of a

relationship. And so with John and I, when we met, I remember the first time we held hands

felt like electric. You know, we were in the friend stage. We were watching a movie, and I think

our pinkies kind of touched on the chair, and we held hands for the first time. And you just

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