Persevering Through the Almost Giving Up Season
Focus on Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Many struggling couples are asking, "Can our relationship survive?" Carey Nieuwhof joins Jim Daly to share about how he's seen divorce negatively impact people. You'll then hear John ask Greg and Erin Smalley about how they persevered through some challenging times in their own marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | There are some marriages in which you start asking can we even make it and if you're there please know that we have encouragement for you today. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley who lead the focus marriage team. |
| 0:19.0 | We're going to hear now from Carrie and Tony Newhoff. |
| 0:22.0 | They joined |
| 0:23.0 | President Jim Daly in some prior episodes |
| 0:26.0 | to share about how they reached a critical state in their marriage. |
| 0:30.0 | Today, Carrie speaks about ways that he's seen divorce negatively affect people and how that actually motivated him to not give up on their relationship. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, one of the things you said to me which really caught my eye because patterns develop right when you have dozens hundreds of clients |
| 0:48.4 | Patterns develop and Tony said more than a few times one of her clients would come in and just say if I'd known it had been |
| 0:55.8 | divorce was going to be this painful I would have tried harder for my marriage. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah and I thought that is a really good lesson and it brought me back to what we talked about last time in the church like I didn't want to go down that road but the pain was so great |
| 1:10.7 | That I couldn't think of another option and then I began to watch the Domino's |
| 1:14.7 | fall this won't be the story that we want to write for our kids this definitely is not |
| 1:19.1 | the story you want for our church and then the next day it's like okay we got to work harder we got to work |
| 1:23.3 | harder but I think I think we romanticize what we don't have and we can get so |
| 1:29.6 | cynical about what we do have and we miss the path down the middle which is like well maybe |
| 1:35.0 | some of that romanticization like eventually you're going to end up if you end up |
| 1:38.9 | with somebody else you're going to bring all of your unresolved problems into that relationship. |
| 1:43.6 | That person is going to have unresolved problems. |
| 1:45.8 | Now you got a new mess, plus you haven't really finished the old mess. |
| 1:49.1 | So, you know, by the grace of God, we were able to figure out, okay, we got to work. Yeah I think say it again you know our |
| 1:55.2 | goal here at focus is to help you in every way we can to help your marriage survive so that you can |
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