Saving Your Marriage from Divorce, Part 5
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Confronting marriage problems isn't fun, but it's needed from time to time. How you handle them will determine the strength of your relationship. Greg, Erin and John explain how to surround yourself with godly influences when your marriage is in a difficult place.
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| 0:00.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.4 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | All right, so you've been married a while and you hear this phrase, |
| 0:45.8 | honey, we need to talk and your response to that statement is, well your response can either |
| 0:52.0 | strengthen or sabotage your relationship to a degree. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and today we're returning to a conversation that |
| 1:00.2 | Jim Daly and I had with Dr. David Clark about saving your marriage from divorce. |
| 1:06.5 | And Dr. Clark has some really helpful thoughts on confronting your spouse when you notice a big problem in your relationship. |
| 1:13.0 | David, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:15.0 | Great to be back. |
| 1:16.0 | Today I want to talk about what you call being married to a stick. |
| 1:19.0 | What? |
| 1:20.0 | Okay, now what's that? |
| 1:22.0 | A stick is a person, could be the husband or the wife, that really is not into the marriage, not going to change. |
| 1:29.0 | They are happy with a very low level of intimacy, I mean real low they can live 40 50 60 years in a marriage just like that I want to you know you're going to come after me on this I want to be a little sympathetic to the stick maybe because I got a little stick you know in me |
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