Overcoming the Bad With Good
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It's not an uncommon marriage problem: one spouse is working hard, but the other is indifferent. When this scenario happens, it can be easy for the marriage to start coasting rather than growing. John, Greg and Erin give some ideas for how to avoid coasting in your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | The Stara's first pregnancy was terminated when she was 15 years old. |
| 0:06.0 | She didn't understand what was happening. |
| 0:08.0 | After three more abortions, she finally learned the truth. |
| 0:12.0 | I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human being in your stomach. |
| 0:21.0 | And I was like, wow, that's pro life. |
| 0:24.7 | Today, Dostara has six children who represent God's love and forgiveness in her life. |
| 0:31.0 | And today, Dostara is a pro-life advocate. |
| 0:34.3 | So it's focus on the family has definitely sharpened me and I'm looking forward to |
| 0:38.8 | continuing to being sharpening. I'm not embarrassed anymore about the choices that I made. I'm wanting to help. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms giving these families hope. Donate at |
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | Tragically some marriages suffer slash marriage |
| 1:14.1 | podcast. |
| 1:12.6 | Tragically some marriages suffer from real imbalance and they're doing everything they can to love well but it's not working. |
| 1:20.6 | There's only one party doing that the other is cold as ice what do you |
| 1:25.2 | do that I'm John Fuller joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley and Aaron you counsel a lot of |
| 1:30.8 | couples and I'm sure you often see this kind of situation where one person's |
| 1:35.6 | giving and giving and giving and the other is just not interested. |
| 1:40.3 | Yes or taking taking taking and so And so there's dysfunction on both parts. |
| 1:45.0 | And often the person who's giving, giving, giving, |
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