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🗓️ 12 November 2025
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Rosie Makinney knows firsthand the devastation pornography can bring to a marriage. She provides startling research about how porn negatively impacts the brain, and the pervasiveness of porn use even in the Christian community. Rosie rescued her own marriage from pornography and wants to help you do the same.
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| 0:29.9 | This is John Fuller, and on today's focus on the family with Jim Daly, we're addressing an evil that destroys far too many marriages and families. |
| 0:39.8 | This is a sensitive and serious topic, and it's not appropriate for younger children. |
| 0:47.5 | Someone told me if I loved my husband enough, he would stop using porn. When I confronted him, |
| 0:52.8 | he said he was done, and we tried to get help again and again and again. |
| 0:58.1 | I was devastated when I discovered that my daughter was addicted to illicit websites. |
| 1:03.4 | He chose porn over me. |
| 1:06.3 | He will always choose porn over me. |
| 1:09.9 | John, those comments represent the heartbreak we hear from so many couples |
| 1:14.0 | today. Here at Focus on the Family. We receive about 2,000 responses a day from people. It's of all |
| 1:22.4 | different types in nature, but certainly this topic of pornography is one of the leaders. |
| 1:29.0 | Pornography is an unwelcome guest to any marriage because it will destroy that marriage. |
| 1:35.5 | It all has complicating aspects to it. |
| 1:38.5 | It destroys intimacy. |
| 1:40.4 | It widens secrecy. |
| 1:42.5 | It makes you not trust one another. |
| 1:45.8 | And that is horrific in a marriage. |
| 1:48.2 | Porn's a poison that destroys anyone who uses it. |
| 1:50.6 | We need to think about that. |
| 1:51.8 | The data is astonishing to me, and that's why we're covering it, John. |
| 1:56.0 | When you look at the number of both men and women who are using porn today. It is catastrophic. |
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