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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All right let me speak to the guys for a moment.

It's been a long day at work and all you want to do is come home and veg out.

Tune out the world.

You're pretty stressed. But you get home and your wife immediately wants to know how is your day?

This is a little bit of a frustration point for some men and I think what my wife and I have learned is I just need a little

time to decompress and then I'll be able to share with you. I'm John Fuller joined by

the Smalley's, Greg and Aaron, who run our marriage department here at Focus and I'm sure that you have

friends who have experienced that kind of thing right? Right. Very very very

close friends. I know that when I come home as an introvert I'm usually

exhausted because I've used so many words already at work here at focus on

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