Staying Together in the Tough Times
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When your marriage goes through a trying season, it can either make your relationship better or harder. How you respond to difficulties is what matters. John, Greg and Erin offer hope to couples who are in the middle of a tough season. Featuring Mr. Jeff and Mrs. Sarah Walton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.7 | When you and your spouse are going through a challenging time, there are kind of two rivers that |
| 0:26.0 | can go out of that situation. You can go down the river of drifting apart or a river that kind of |
| 0:33.2 | circles around and helps you grow closer. And the key is learning how to respond well in which |
| 0:39.4 | direction you really want to take. I'm John Fuller in the studio here with Greg Smolley and his |
| 0:44.4 | wife, Aaron, who lead the marriage department here at Focus, and they have a passion for helping |
| 0:49.5 | couples. And last time we heard from Jeff and Sarah Walton. Now, Sarah was diagnosed with |
| 0:55.2 | Lyme's disease, and sadly, her kids got it as well. And the couple shared with Jim Daily about |
| 1:01.7 | their journey and what happened after getting that difficult news that really rocked their |
| 1:07.0 | family. Jeff in that regard, I mean, expectations. You know, we've heard from Sarah what that |
| 1:12.9 | look like, but for you, I mean, you're working hard. You've got this demanding job. Sarah's alluded |
| 1:20.0 | to that, the hours that it required of you. Most of us men say, okay, we're providing. That's our |
| 1:25.8 | main thing. And you should be speaking to your spouse. You should be pleased that I'm able to |
| 1:32.0 | put food on the table and take care of the mortgage. And this is the number one demand of me. |
| 1:37.4 | Some people might feel that's old fashioned, but there's a lot of us in the Christian community |
| 1:41.5 | that operate that way because we believe a parent should be at home with young kids, particularly. |
| 1:47.4 | So as that husband, that father, you probably thought, hey, I'm doing all I can do, but don't let me |
| 1:54.1 | put words in your mouth. No, that is from the standpoint of the job that I had. So I was a |
| 1:59.8 | trauma consultant, as John had mentioned, orthopedic trauma. So I'm called 24-7. And it's a very |
| 2:07.6 | demanding job. I think the first half of that time I was in that for about nine years. The first |
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