Navigating the Common Challenges of Marriage, Part 7
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Raising children can be one of the most joyful experiences in your life, but it will forever change the dynamics of your marriage. Greg, Erin and John share some ideas for making time for your spouse, while raising small children.
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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 | So when we got married it was like so easy. I mean it just was so natural but when |
| 0:49.5 | our first-born child came along it was such special day, but I realized all too quickly, he was a game |
| 0:56.2 | changer and our marriage was going to be different forever. I'm John Fuller here with Dr. |
| 1:02.4 | Greg Somale and his wife Aaron and I got to ask so how big of a transition was having a child for you all? |
| 1:09.0 | It was a big transition. I know for me that it was a mixture of just so excited, so afraid that our |
| 1:17.7 | marriage will forever be changed and I heard all the horror stories and oh your life was over. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah, I remember going into our birthing class and we looked at each other and we were like, |
| 1:28.0 | what have we done? |
| 1:30.0 | Why didn't you leave me alone? |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah, here I was a labor and delivery nurse. |
| 1:33.6 | I knew how to get the babies out. |
| 1:35.4 | I just didn't know what it looked like taking them home. |
| 1:38.4 | And we heard horror stories. |
| 1:40.5 | A good friend of ours, Bill Do Doherty just sum this up so perfectly listen to this |
| 1:46.0 | we taught our children that we value our marriage without devaluing them that more of |
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