Planets and the Sun

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Raising kids with your spouse is one of life's greatest blessings. But anyone who's had children will tell you it's not easy to balance them with your marriage. John talks with Greg and Erin about how to prioritize your marriage, even with the constant demands of parenting.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:36.4	You know, one of the greatest benefits of marriage is raising kids together. It
0:40.7	gives you kind of a common core, something to work together on. But like
0:45.6	anything meaningful in life, raising children is really hard and not without
0:50.6	its challenges. We have been fortunate. We have got six kids ourselves,
0:56.1	Tina and I do. And I love them. I love my children so much. But they have
1:01.5	really caused a lot of interruptions, a lot of stress and strain and
1:05.2	disconnection in our marital relationship. And you might be in a season today
1:09.7	where the demands of raising children are coming at you and nonstop and you're
1:13.5	thinking, how do we do this? I'm glad you've tuned in. I'm really looking
1:18.3	forward to the conversation today. I'm John Fuller joined by Greg and Aaron
1:22.1	Smalley and they're in charge of our focus on the family marriage department.
1:26.2	And recently Jim Daley and I had a studio session with Greg and Aaron about
1:30.7	the importance of connecting with your mate. And I think you're going to get
1:34.4	some good perspective from the smallies about how to do that with children in
1:38.5	the home. Why is it so easy for married couples to drift apart and start to
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