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They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that

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You know if you're building a house you take every detail in very seriously and similarly in marriage if you're paying attention really paying attention to your spouse's, that's going to help build a loving relationship.

I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, and they're in charge of our focused marriage department,

and Aaron, I'll just pitch it to you be honest is being married to Greg

harder than you anticipated is it more work well I wouldn't say being married to

Greg but marriage in general I would say is much more work than I ever

expected because you know you're kind of fed the the belief that oh once you get

married well it's all good and then you just enjoy life together.

Yeah, but then comes conflict and challenges and stress and but it's not a bad thing that it's hard work.

It's that you're feeding and pouring into a relationship and

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