Making Your Marriage a Safe Place
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When you feel overwhelmed by life's challenges, having a spouse to support you is one of life's greatest gifts. But in those tough seasons, your relationship can grow stronger than before. John and the Smalley's give some tips for strengthening your marriage in the challenging seasons. Featuring Milan and Kay Yerkovich.
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| 0:00.0 | After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next. |
| 0:07.0 | Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family. |
| 0:11.0 | Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that, resources |
| 0:19.5 | that they suggested. |
| 0:22.3 | They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that |
| 0:27.3 | so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom. |
| 0:31.0 | So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all with that focus on the family. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, we're able to give new hope to families like Shelly's, and we invite you to join our family strengthening team. |
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| 0:50.0 | Please call 800 the letter A and the word family or visit focus on the family |
| 0:55.7 | dot com slash gift. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | Well this world can be so stressful at times, but what if your marriage? |
| 1:17.6 | What if the relationship with your spouse was a safe haven whenever you were facing a really tough situation. I'm John Fuller along with my colleagues here |
| 1:26.3 | at Focus on the family, Greg and Aaron Smalley and Aaron. Why is it important for us to have kind of a safe place with our spouse. You know John it's |
| 1:34.8 | because when you feel safe your heart opens and when your hearts open you connect |
| 1:39.2 | you connect freely knowing that your spouse gets your value and that as vulnerable as this connection |
| 1:46.0 | is because it's a there's a lot at stake here within our marriage relationship you know |
| 1:51.6 | is he going to cherish me? Does he value me? |
| 1:55.1 | Does he see my value? Is he going to be there for me in my time of need? |
| 1:59.7 | All these things are the questions that we're all asking at a deeper level. Am I going to be |
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