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There's no doubt that good communication with your spouse requires time with them, but how much is enough time?

We're going to answer that question definitively today. I'm John Fuller with Greg and Aaron Smalley.

They lead the marriage team here at Focus on the Family. And Greg, how much time do I need to spend with my wife?

Did me, you know, really have a quality relationship? I mean, how much time do I need to spend with my wife? Did me, you know, really have a

quality relationship? I mean, how much time you need to spend with Dina is maybe a little bit

different than, you know, most every other couple. No, the right answer is 10 minutes. So the

research does show that. Yeah, actually the research shows that the difference between, you know, couples who would say, man, our marriage is healthy, we enjoy our relationship, we feel like good, connected friends.

They, what they, when they study those couples, they found that they were spending on average about 10 minutes a day in more of what the researchers called inner life

conversation because the problem is that most of us spent so much time throughout the day

administrating our marriage we're in a you know an executive meeting about figuring out who's doing what, which you have to do that.

It's all family logistics, which is critical. Right. I mean, you've got to figure that out,

but if that's where we stay, that's when the drift happens. And that's what's so cool about that

research is that it really put a definitive number that if you take 10 minutes a day, do something as easy as

what was the high of your day, the low of your day, and just not asking, you know, hey,

and by the way, are you going to go to the grocery store? You're going to pick up the kids,

who's taking which one to sport, whatever. Like if you carve out some very unique time just to say, I want to hear about you down deep.

I want to hear about what's really going on.

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