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The truth is there's hope for your marriage and you both want the same things and God wants the same things for you. He's on your side.

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Well, Matt and Lisa Jacobson joined us today on Focus on the Family, talking about some of the ways that you can strengthen the love and the joy in your relationship with your spouse.

Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

Well, John, we create a lot of marriage content here at Focus on the Family primarily because that's one of our major areas.

Marriage and parenting and advocacy for kids and then engaging the culture in addition to evangelism and helping people come to know the Lord.

So marriage is one of those prominent things that we try to help people do better, including ourselves.

Yeah, I always benefit from these conversations.

And you know, we're listening. This is a two-way dialogue. I like the way Dr. Dops and I always talked about that.

You know, we want to hear from you. Even if you just want to tell us something, that's important to us because we collect that information and it helps shape future programs and content that we create.

So if something strikes you or you have an idea, just let us know. John will give those details later.

But we do listen. Some of the top questions we've received are about navigating busy schedules. That's up there. Certainly financial issues, often intimacy issues, communication and conflict and then a lack of respect or appreciation in that context of marriage.

These are important topics, right? And although they often present themselves in small moments every day, it's that drip, drip, drip effect and over time that can become water torture in a marriage.

If I could say it that way. Philippians 2.2 says, complete my joy by being of the same mind. Having the same love, I really like that.

Having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. It's vital for us as Christians, as the church, but certainly as married couples to demonstrate that unity and we're going to talk about that today.

And Matt and Lisa Jacobson have been here before. Lisa is an author, a speaker and founder and host of club 31women.com, an online community of Christian women authors. Matt is a teaching elder and pastor at Klein Falls Bible Fellowship and the founder of FaithfulMan.com, which is a social media community focusing on family teaching.

Together, Matt and Lisa have written two books. The Go Hand in Hand, one is called Loving Your Husband Well and the other is Loving Your Wife Well. And you can find details about those books in the show notes.

Lisa and Matt, welcome back to Focus. Good to have you. It's great to be back again. Yeah, it's so fun. Let's get right to it. You had an amazing love story.

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