Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst.

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You know one small step of obedience can lead to a lifetime of help and restoration in your marriage.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron Smalley. They run our marriage

department here at Focus on the Family and today we're going to hear more from

Anne White about a decision she made that started a healing journey for her marriage.

Here's Jim Daly.

I would say reading the book, your first step was the vulnerability step

to share with somebody who was that

somebody and was it during the Israel trip it absolutely was so that very moment

when my face was on the floor and I was asking God what to do. He immediately gave me the answer. He immediately, I knew immediately what I was supposed to do.

I felt the Lord speak to my spirit and tell me to write down the reality of our situation on a piece of Hotel Letterhead and take

it to my pastor and his wife.

They would have seen you as a together couple, to our description before for 15 years we were great we're still great friends with him obviously but for 15 years prior to that moment we'd been great friends traveled traveled internationally with them, traveled many times,

spent vacations with them, they had no clue.

Yeah, wow, you were good managers of the pain.

We were. I mean, really. So you... you were

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