When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God.

And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff.

Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy,

thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about

kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,

that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

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Each one of us in a marriage relationship needs some grace, and it's really important to offer grace

when it comes to physical intimacy. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley and his wife, Erin.

They oversee the focused marriage team, and Erin, you're a counselor, and I wonder how common

it is for couples to come into your office and say, this whole sexual thing, it's not working.

You know, it's interesting, John, because I could say, well, all the time, but typically

people that are coming in for counseling, they're not experiencing satisfaction in some

place in their marriage. And typically, when couples are disconnected, sex is impacted. Their physical relationship

is impacted. Statistically, 83% of couples in the first six months after marrying report

that they're satisfied with their sexual relationship. So the overwhelming number shows that

satisfaction is what's happening. Yes. But then over time it begins to drop. And you could

put that alongside of the statistics of when do couples typically start to drift. They get busy.

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