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Well, trauma affects so many marriages, and it might be the loss of a business, an affair, or losing a loved one.

It might be easy to wonder, can we ever find purpose again?

Well, I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage team here at the ministry.

And Erin, for couples who go through a serious challenge, what's your observation, because

you work with couples all the time, what do you think it is in terms of kind of an average

to get back to normal or find some sense of hope?

Of course, it largely depends on what they've been through.

And there's never a prescribed time. Like you have to recover by, you know, 6.3 months after this trauma has

happened. And each spouse is going to recover at a different pace, and especially depending

on what it is. I know with infidelity, the research says the average is one to three years,

and some other experts say two to five years. So it depends on what the couple has gone through,

what they're doing to recover. Are they in therapy, both individually and together?

Are they able to give each other space to grieve? However, they're grieving, and they're grieving

in different ways, possibly different paces. There's ups, there's downs. And so it really is

dependent on all of that.

Yeah.

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