The Gift of Affection
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A small note, a gentle hug, a tender kiss. These things can add so much to your marriage. But what do you do when you don't feel like being affectionate? John Fuller and Erin Smalley remind us that we can still choose to be romantic with our mate, even when we don't feel like it. Featuring Matt and Lisa Jacobson.
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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 |
| 0:35.8 | can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.6 | marriage podcast. Hey this is John Fuller and today we're going to do things a |
| 0:46.1 | little bit outside of the box. A little different than the norm. I'm joined by |
| 0:51.3 | Aaron Smalley. She and her husband Greg run our marriage department and Greg's |
| 0:56.4 | not in the studio with us. It's Aaron unplugged unshackled all by herself and |
| 1:02.0 | we'll get to Aaron in just a moment or two. But right now let's go back to a |
| 1:05.3 | conversation that Jim Daley and I had with Matt and Lisa Jacobson. They've been |
| 1:10.4 | married for more than 20 years and they're describing how a simple moment |
| 1:15.3 | turned very romantic. Now we got to flip the coin a little bit because you had |
| 1:20.5 | an experience to where I think Matt came home. He came up. You were making |
| 1:24.0 | dinner. You're really being pulled in a lot of different directions. But he |
| 1:26.9 | came up and gave you this wonderful embrace a hug from behind just to let |
| 1:31.6 | you know I'm home. I'm in your corner. It didn't go down so well, though, right? |
| 1:35.6 | Well, what a beautiful thing you did. Thank you. I just want to say it's very |
| 1:39.3 | kind of you. That being an announcer. It wasn't my proudest moment for |
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