Making Time for Each Other
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Time is a precious gift, but in a non-stop world, finding a few minutes together is hard to do. When your schedule is full, having a deep conversation with your spouse can feel like just another checklist item. John, Greg and Erin provide some practical ideas for spending more time with your spouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody around us this summer, I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that there's a lot of folks in their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriage fall apart and that scared us. |
| 0:12.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
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| 1:12.0 | Well if you're like me you've got a running to-do list, and if you're like me, that |
| 1:16.9 | to-do list grows exponentially, and you never catch up. |
| 1:20.3 | And somewhere along the way, you want to kind of make sure you have time for your spouse. |
| 1:26.0 | But when? |
| 1:28.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who head up our marriage department here at Focus and Greg you never |
| 1:34.0 | struggle with this I mean you two have all the time in the world aren't you almost |
| 1:37.3 | empty nesters almost although really not because we have a 13 year old still at home. |
| 1:43.2 | I guess so. Yeah, but thank you for rubbing that into our collective faces. |
| 1:47.6 | It was never been necessary for three weeks by the way. |
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