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Don't believe the movies and TV shows and all this stuff you see that says

intimacy and emotional connection just happened. Anyone who's been married

for a while will tell you the true intimacy takes time. I'm John Fuller along

with Dr. Greg and Aaron Smalley. They lead our marriage department here at

Focus and let's go ahead and hear a conversation featuring Deborah Fileta

who's a counselor and has some great insights about the very seasons that we

go through as couples. Now in a previous episode she spoke with Jim Daley and

me about the season of spring which is when the relationship is just

beginning and here's more from that conversation. But moving to summer you give

the example of how building emotional connection as a couple is like a spider

web. This was really interesting to me and you talked about the strength of the

spider web. Why is that a good analogy for us? Well spider webs are something we

see often in summer and summer is the season when things get hot, right?

Summer is that season of developing intimacy in a relationship and really

having to work at that intimacy and one of the key components is emotional

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