When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

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Just like a bank account needs deposits, slash marriage

needs some investments to really thrive

and one of the best you can make

is spending time together.

I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. They're

in charge of our marriage team here at Focus on the Family and it's really dangerous

Aaron for somebody in a marriage to think, oh my spouse is fine, they don't need my

intention, I'm done with that. I already put that investment in them.

It is a scary place because what happens is you begin living parallel lives.

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