The Best Choices You Can Make For Your Marriage

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dr. Ron and Jan Welch will talk about communicating well, choosing forgiveness and unselfishness, and challenging unspoken truths. If couples can learn to show respect, honor and love each other, a lot of their conflict will go away.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, check out the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daley.
0:04.8	Author Tim Geigline will help us to honor America's spiritual heritage and influence the culture with faith and optimism.
0:12.0	Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com.
0:19.2	It's a daily decision if you want to be in love that day.
0:23.6	And we have this language that talks about it happening to us like it's an outside force and we fall into love
0:29.8	as opposed to making a conscious decision to say I want to love you. I'm going to love you and I'm choosing to love you.
0:35.1	Dr. Ron Welch is our guest today on Focus on the Family and he and his wife Jan have some
0:40.3	simple advice for your marriage that can really be implemented today.
0:45.3	Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller.
0:49.2	Hey John, if you think about it every day of our lives is made up of lots of little decisions.
0:55.2	We decide whether or not to hit the snooze button. Did you do that this morning?
0:58.9	I wanted to or perhaps what shoes to wear. I'm pretty set on one pair.
1:04.6	I'm not as bad as that. I make it simple. Maybe what to put in your coffee.
1:08.7	Some days I put cream and sweetener and some days it's just straight black. I don't know about you.
1:12.8	I think you're straight black. Kind of a coffee drinker.
1:15.5	But researchers say that on average a person makes about 35,000 decisions a day.
1:21.6	No wonder I'm tired.
1:24.1	Well I said this to Jean and to Troy last night and they said yeah I could see that.
1:28.0	I said tell me whether to get up right now. Whether to scratch my head.
1:32.0	Whether to walk across the room. When you put in that context yeah I could see how we would
1:36.0	reach 35,000 decisions a day. But here's something we often don't think of as a decision.
1:42.4	Loving our spouse. Hollywood often paints love is huge, romantic. You hear the themes.
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