The Difference a Helpful Friend Makes

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

When your marriage faces challenges, having a supportive friend to turn to can be so helpful. But how do you know if someone is a safe person to share your struggles with? Greg, Erin and John explain how you can find trustworthy friends to help your marriage in times of need.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.2	today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You
0:35.6	can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash
0:40.4	marriage podcast. No matter how hard you try, you and your spouse still won't have
0:46.4	a perfect marriage. It's just not going to happen but whenever a problem does
0:51.0	come up, the key isn't to sweep it under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist. We
0:55.1	really do have a perfect marriage. Unfortunately a lot of us live in that false
1:00.4	reality. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. They're in charge of
1:05.4	our marriage department here and Aaron, you do a lot of great work with
1:09.7	marriages. Who are some of your go-to friends if you will? Give us an example of
1:14.4	somebody you can talk to honestly about your marriage. I have several friends
1:19.6	that I have been friends with for 20 plus years and so they've known Greg and I
1:25.4	in our marriage when we were young and as we've aged through raising children and
1:30.7	now into almost empty nesting. And so I know that I can talk to my friend Lisa,
1:36.5	my friend Laurie about anything and they know the family dynamics, they know Greg
1:41.7	and I know they love Greg. And so if I'm having a difficult stent with Greg,
1:46.0	they're not going to take up an offense. They're going to be there just to listen and care.
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