Your marriage can be healed.

A hope restored marriage intensive from focus on the family can transform you and your spouse's relationship in just a few days.

We'll go to this thing, but this is it.

If this doesn't work, we're done.

What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage.

Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com.

And the goal, yes, is marriage. In fact, if you look in the definition of Friends First

Dating, we say the goal is a life-giving, lifelong marriage.

So that's the goal.

But that's not the purpose.

The purpose of dating is growing a friendship that might get you there.

That's Michael Johnson, and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly talking about how you can prepare yourself well

for marriage. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, we have so many great resources here

at Focus on the Family. The way people need to think about this place, it's a treasure trove of help

for marriage, pre-marriage, for parents, for guidance on movies and all kinds of things.

We have hope restored it.

The list is just so long.

If you have an issue in your family, call us and get the ball rolling, and we will help to find a solution for you.

We will work tirelessly to do that and to ensure that you have what you need to

make your marriage as strong as it can be, to help you in your parenting, and so much more.

And we're going to share some great basic tools for developing healthy relationships

and putting Christ first today as we talk about the dating relationship.

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