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If I ask you if you're grateful for your spouse, I'm pretty sure you'd say, yeah, of course, but oftentimes we don't demonstrate that gratitude to our spouse.

I'm John Fuller with Greg Smalley and Greg give us a quick breakdown of what gratitude

is and isn't so we kind of know what we're talking about here.

I think gratitude is made up of two things.

First of all, you have to notice and observe and watch and expect that your spouse

will do things that you appreciate.

So you've got to look for it and find it.

Once you see it, then you express that in a specific way.

Not, hey, thank you for being you and for being so wonderful I celebrate you it's

thank you for getting up in the morning to take our daughter to track practice

where I know you'd much rather be sleeping. Okay, so be grateful and express that specifically to your spouse.

I like that and with that backdrop, let's go ahead and hear from Dr. Les and Leslie

Parrot.

We're going to hear them talk about the realization they had of how much

gratitude can do in your relationship. It can do more than just change your attitude.

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