Practical Advice for Transforming Your Military Marriage
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Military life can place enormous strain on families through deployments, frequent moves, and long seasons of separation. But what if those challenges could become opportunities for deeper faith and even ministry? Beth Runkle shares how military spouses can replace fear with faith, use prayer as a powerful spiritual weapon, and see every new assignment as part of God’s calling on their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Is your marriage struggling, communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve? |
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| 0:30.4 | I think it's important for people to realize that our freedom is not free. There are sacrifices |
| 0:35.7 | made by their families. So I really want to speak to that |
| 0:40.2 | spouse that is left at home, either man or woman. I think they often feel unseen and unrecognized. |
| 0:47.0 | They're desperate for adult conversation and just someone to know that they care. |
| 0:52.7 | Beth Runkle is our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Dealing. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, military life can be incredibly challenging for families. We've had a number of guests on from time to time, and they've talked about that, and they've written some great resources. We want to touch this again today. I mean, when we get to deployments, I was not in the military. My brother, Mike, was in the Navy and did that four-year stint. And, you know, he'd be out at sea for six months. We'd say goodbye in Long Beach, and then he'd be out in the Pacific for six months and come home and we'd all go down to the pier to greet him. He wasn't married at the time, and I think that |
| 1:27.5 | served him well. But there are many, many married people in the military. And we want to honor you |
| 1:32.8 | by talking about how to overcome some of these challenges so that you can do it in a God-honoring way, |
| 1:39.4 | serve the country, which is amazing. And we thank you for that service, and then to keep your family together |
| 1:45.2 | as you do it. And Beth Runkle is a military spouse. Her husband served in the Air Force for 25 |
| 1:51.5 | years. Beth has experienced all the realities you were just touching on, Jim, the deployments, |
| 1:57.1 | the moves, and seasons of being a solo parent. And she's captured her insights and experiences in a great little book called Another Move |
| 2:05.7 | God, 30 Encouragement to Embrace Your Life as a Military Wife. |
| 2:10.6 | Beth, welcome to focus on the family. |
| 2:12.5 | It's good to have you. |
| 2:13.3 | Thanks. |
| 2:13.6 | It's an honor to be on here, and especially to speak encouragement to our military |
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