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marriage podcast. This is John Fuller along with my friends at focus here Greg

and Aaron Smolley and Greg last time we were talking about a controlling

spouse and what that can do in the relationship and I wonder if you have any

statistics or any sense of how prevalent it is that in a marriage there's a

spouse who's very controlling. Yeah I think sadly about two thirds of the couples

would describe their relationship as to some degree feeling very dissatisfying

and and that's that's sad. We know that there's about a 40% divorce right so a lot

of those couples over time their hearts begin to close and eventually harden and so

they they they don't recover but again about a third would say you know I'm

pretty satisfied within the relationship but it's a big deal in the good

news is we can actually do something about it wherever your relationship is at

today we can do some things that would help over time to have that sort of

relationship that you really long for. Well let's go ahead and hear about a

couple that did not have a relationship that was life giving or healthy for a

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