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Focus on Marriage Podcast

Money Doesn’t Solve Everything

Focus on Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Finances tend to be one of the biggest areas of conflict for marriages. The Smalley's and John Fuller open up about how they've overcome arguments around money in their marriages. Then, Jim Daly speaks with Megan and Taylor Kovar about how couples can adopt some healthy perspectives on money.

 

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0:00.0

Long ago, Missy thought abortion was the right choice, but she was misinformed about what was really going on.

0:08.4

There wasn't much truth there, and there was no physical evidence that they could show me any different than the lies that I had been told, such as, you know, it's a lot of the tissue and if you do it quickly, it's not a baby,

0:23.0

all those lives. And these ultrasounds, these ultrasounds show them it is life. So that's why

0:29.7

I support Operation ultrasound. God healed Missy's heart. And today, she's a pro-life advocate.

0:36.8

And focus on the family is equipping her to help

0:40.0

others. I want other women who are sitting like me, sitting in church, or dealing with that

0:46.1

shame and secrecy, to know that there's hope and healing. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies

0:51.4

and give families hope. Donate and your gift will be doubled at focus

0:55.8

on the family.com slash gift.

1:03.5

Most couples I know have some sort of struggle with money. It's communication or it's the

1:10.6

practice of what are we

1:11.5

going to spend it on. We had a little miscommunication like 40 years ago on our honeymoon.

1:16.7

I think I told that story where Dina was looking for a momento of our time together in the Ozarks,

1:23.6

and I just didn't want to. It didn't seem practical to me. And that led to our first conflict in marriage,

1:29.5

and that was just four days in. So more recently, I would say we have this, not attention,

1:34.1

but it's a talking point because she wants to remodel the kitchen at some level. And of course,

1:38.9

a full remodels. Like, that's cost more than houses used to cost. And she's not going to do that, but as soon as you

1:46.1

start talking about move this and change that, ooh, man, it gets expensive.

1:50.3

Suggest that she just gets another momento. I might suggest we just get another house. It might be

1:55.6

those. Yeah, there you go. I think I'll do that. I'll just bring out one of those pieces of pottery she had her eye on and say, this looks really great in the kitchen. We don't need to do anything here. I should have had this conversation with you previously. I got your back. Well, I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage team and are my personal counselors. Not really, but they could be. And you really are through doing this podcast for so many years.

2:21.5

What does this have been?

2:22.1

Like six, seven years?

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