Navigating Midlife Transitions in Your Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Every marriage goes through some predictable and unavoidable transitions like “baby makes three” and then the “the empty nest”. Other transitions also come along that will significantly impact your time, energy, and your relationship with your spouse. Bill and Pam Farrel help you learn how to handle these transitions and offer way you can approach them to strengthen your marriage. They offer some tools to help you identify those transitions and come out stronger on the other side! (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | If you know that it's coming then you invest well and you make smart decisions and it doesn't have to be a crisis |
| 0:06.9 | But most people just like fly through life and don't really think through life or prepare well |
| 0:12.1 | Like if they're not listening to focus on |
| 0:13.9 | the family they might not be ready that's what I'm saying and everybody I know |
| 0:17.9 | evaluates life in midlife so you will evaluate. Yes. That's Bill and Pam Farrell and they join us today on |
| 0:27.1 | focus on the family with Jim Bailey. I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:30.1 | John I so appreciated what Bill and Pam had to say last time talking about midlife transitions in marriage |
| 0:35.7 | So if you're married I'm sure you're leaning in going yeah we're in it because almost every couple will go through something if not every so many years you know you have your first child you then |
| 0:47.4 | have maybe two three four who knows and then they grow up and they leave the |
| 0:51.6 | house and now you got another transition and of course |
| 0:53.9 | teen years and then you get into taking care of aging parents we're going to talk |
| 0:57.8 | about all that today with our special guests and they've written a great book the |
| 1:01.9 | ten best decisions a couple can make, |
| 1:04.0 | bring out the best in your relationship, and every married couple says, |
| 1:08.0 | Amen. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, get a copy of the book and learn more about Bill and Pam. |
| 1:12.0 | At our website, we've got the |
| 1:14.2 | link in the show notes. And John one of the easiest ways for people to pick up if |
| 1:17.9 | they didn't hear last time is listening to the app. Our mobile app is a great one |
| 1:22.1 | it's got all sorts of |
| 1:23.2 | great resources. It really does and that's the way I'm listening mostly now so |
| 1:27.1 | just a good reminder. Pam and Bill welcome back. Thank you. |
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