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Once you have that kind of bond, you really want to fight for it. Even if it's hard, even if it brings tears and pain, you get through it.

And we've done it. And I can tell you, going over that rainbow was worth every price we had to go through.

Well, Ron and Jan Welch, join us today on Focus on the Family. Your host is Focus President and author Jim Dayley and I'm John Fuller.

John marriage is a unique and precious gift from God. And I was reminded by a young lady not long ago. She said, you know, whatever Christians talk about marriage, sometimes they talk about it being a load or, you know, carrying this heavy burden.

And I want to say, yeah, we don't want to project that. We want to say marriage is awesome. Sometimes you got to do some tune up. You got to, you know, you got to pour into it.

You got to work at it. But man, you put that little bit of work in and marriage is the thing that drives you. You know, it's fun. It's good.

So I want to make sure we start there. And we're going to talk about some of the tune up things today and how to make it even better.

And I hope that you will lean in with us, especially if you're, you know, kind of an installed spot and you want your marriage to be all that it could be.

Yeah. And Dr. Ron Welch and his wife Jan are here to talk a little bit more about these things that can make marriage better.

Ron is a clinical psychologist who specializes in marriage and family and Jan is a teacher who works with at-risk children.

And they've been married for over 30 years and have two grown boys and two grandkids. Three. Okay, three grandkids. Correct the record there.

Dr. Welch has written a book called 10 Choices for a Better Marriage. How to work through struggles and increased joy today.

Look for details about that at our website.

Ron and Jan, it's great to have you back to focus. Thanks so much. We appreciate being here.

Yeah. Now Ron, as a psychologist, you work with couples going through some tough stuff. Does choice really factor into how you empower relationships?

You know, it has so much to do with whether people feel they have the power to change things. If they don't feel there's a choice and it's sort of like they're stuck, this is the way it has to be.

It's the way it's always been. So it's probably the way it's always going to be. Without that, it doesn't feel like there's any choice.

If you can change that one thought process, suddenly everything opens up.

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