Well, I wonder if you've ever worried about something for days or even weeks, only to

find out that you were afraid of nothing?

Nothing happened.

So many of us have been guilty of that.

We've experienced that.

And today we're going to talk about overcoming fear and challenges in your marriage.

I'm John Fuller with Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron Smolley.

They lead the focus on the family marriage team and Aaron, you've worked with a lot of

couples and I think you've found that fear can do a lot of damage to relationships, right?

Absolutely.

And we all have fear.

And often it comes out in the form of buttons or triggers, emotions we don't want to

feel.

But really, we could place the word fear in front of those words that we begin believing

about ourselves.

Not good enough that I'm a failure, that I'm invisible, whatever it is that we start

believe those lies that we believe ourselves really are fears.

For example, working with a couple several months ago, the young wife had the fear of being

alone.

And it wasn't, I mean, she's married, her husband is sitting right next to her.

But this came from long ago, there's always pain behind these fears and their reminiscence

of painful experiences or something that was said to us or how we internalized it.

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