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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Maintaining a Healthy Friendship with Your Mate

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A healthy marriage is built on a great friendship. John talks with the Smalley's about what has kept their friendship strong, and if you need to have common interests to be friends. Also, Jim Daly spoke with Howard and Danielle Taylor about how they've learned to be good friends, and have fun together.


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0:00.0

Someone observed that friendship is to your marriage, what gasoline is to your car.

0:11.4

It's the fuel that keeps your relationship running.

0:14.2

I'm John Fuller, joined by Greg Smolley and his wife, Aaron.

0:17.2

They lead our marriage team here at Focus and Greg.

0:21.3

In your ongoing friendship with Aaron, your long-term relationship with her, what's some

0:26.3

of the fuel that's kept you going?

0:28.0

Yeah, I think some of the little things that we do on a regular basis, we love watching

0:32.8

movies together, we love hiking here in the mountains of Colorado.

0:37.5

We love going out and talking, so we'll go for a walk and just talk about our days and

0:42.9

what's going on and things like that.

0:45.0

I think on a grander scale, Aaron and I have gotten really clear for the season that we

0:51.4

want to do marriage ministry together.

0:53.4

So that includes maybe counseling some couples, we get to do all of the premarital counseling

0:58.6

that goes on at our church, we do marriage events, we get to ride and create content, do

1:03.5

the podcast.

1:05.0

That is so much fun.

1:06.1

We love to travel in one of my very favorite things that we do is about four times a year

1:11.4

we get to go to a Broadway show at our local theater here in Colorado Springs.

1:18.1

And all of that just keeps our connection strong.

1:21.8

It's what you referenced a few episodes ago, it's little things that really keep things

1:25.4

going.

1:26.4

Let's go ahead and hear now about something that Howard and Danielle Taylor spoke with

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