Making Your Marriage Happy Now and Later, Part 4
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Even if you were anxiously looking forward to it, becoming an empty-nester is still a time of transition that can put stress on your marriage. John and Greg give advice on keeping your attitude positive. Featuring Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
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| 0:26.0 | Donate at focus on the family.com slash gift. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | I think if you asked my wife what a bucket list dream might be once we can |
| 0:48.0 | actually do it it would be to go sit on a beach for about two weeks. |
| 0:53.7 | Just sit and watch the sunset, walk along the water, |
| 0:58.6 | explore, have no timeline, no commitments, |
| 1:01.8 | no responsibilities. That would be a total. no |
| 1:03.0 | time, commitments, no responsibilities. That would be a total gift for her. |
| 1:06.0 | And I've got to say, I'm starting to buy into that whole dream myself. |
| 1:10.0 | That's a bucket list item for me. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and a bucket list can be kind of a good thing for couples to talk about and to share. |
| 1:20.0 | I think it does two amazing things for your marriage. |
| 1:23.0 | One, doing bucket list activities. |
| 1:26.0 | It creates life. |
| 1:28.0 | It breeds life into your marriage through excitement, |
| 1:32.0 | through fun, doing those kinds of things. into your we have dreams and things that are often the distance, there's a way in which that keeps |
| 1:46.0 | our commitment solid. |
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