Recovering a Broken Relationship
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When trust has been shattered in your marriage, the recovery process can take months or even years. Is there hope when your relationship is hanging on by a thread? If you or a couple you know is trying to rebuild trust in their relationship, you'll be encouraged by this hopeful conversation with John, Greg and Erin.
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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 |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.4 | marriage podcast. You know when trust has been severed in a marriage that |
| 0:45.9 | healing process if it happens can take a really long time and so if you or a |
| 0:51.4 | couple you know is facing a hard situation right now please know we're here to |
| 0:55.8 | help. I'm John Fuller along with my focus colleagues and friends Greg and |
| 1:00.4 | Aaron Smolley and when trust has been damaged let's say Aaron because of an |
| 1:05.4 | affair what would your observation be about a kind of a time frame for healing in |
| 1:11.1 | that relationship? It is different for everybody John in but the research shows |
| 1:16.1 | about 18 months is the average however that that means it can be less or it can |
| 1:20.8 | be more it takes time to reestablish that connection as well as to allow both |
| 1:26.9 | hearts to heal and so sometimes it involves individual counseling and then |
| 1:31.1 | marriage counseling or individual counseling and then in a marriage intensive |
| 1:35.0 | it just all depends and was the infidelity severed and stopped and how did |
| 1:41.3 | each of the individuals move forward but but overall I would say it's about an |
| 1:45.6 | 18-month stretch. That is a long bit of time for healing to really happen but it |
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