Remembering What Brought You Together
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, it's good to reflect on why you married your spouse. To help you do that, John and Erin discuss the benefits of remembering how you fell in love. Featuring Mrs. Melanie Shankle.
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | All right, here's Captain Obvious. You married someone who is very different from |
| 0:41.3 | you. In many ways though God designed it that way. I know Jim Daley has said |
| 0:45.2 | that time and again. He's made it so that we can compliment each other and help |
| 0:49.5 | each other grow. And sometimes those differences are really irritating and |
| 0:54.0 | other times they're pretty serious. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Erin |
| 0:59.2 | Smolley. She's a professional counselor married to Greg Smolley who heads up |
| 1:03.0 | our marriage team. Greg is out of the studio today, but Erin is stepping up to |
| 1:07.6 | the challenge. Let's go ahead and kick off this episode with a conversation |
| 1:11.9 | pretty fun one that Jim Daley and I had with Melanie Shankle who wrote a book |
| 1:16.6 | called The Antelope in the Living Room. And here she is explaining to us the |
| 1:21.6 | rather humorous story behind that book title. Melanie, it's great to have you |
| 1:25.9 | back at Focus on the Family. Thank you. It's great to be here. Okay, let's |
| 1:28.9 | start right there. I mean, the whole thing about the Antelope in the living room. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm assuming that's a stuffed Antelope head, but what's going on with that |
| 1:37.1 | title? You are correct. You're correct. My husband, my sweet husband is a |
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