The Power of Consistency
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Being intentional about consistent communication is vital to the overall health of your marriage. Jim Daly talked with Bill and Pam Farrel about how they a weekly meeting with each other, and John speaks with Greg and Erin about establishing good habits in your relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Greatness takes time. It takes hard work at a colleague here at Focus on the Family who |
| 0:11.0 | is telling me about his coaching experience and how he tries to help other coaches and |
| 0:15.7 | his players understand that grit is something that really leads to greatness. It's time, |
| 0:22.4 | it's consistency, it's being intentional. That's how you get good at something and that's |
| 0:27.4 | how you get good at marriage. I'm John Fuller, joined by my Focus colleagues, Aaron and |
| 0:32.2 | Greg Smalley. And we're going to hear now from Bill and Pam Ferrell. They have been |
| 0:38.2 | on the broadcast a number of times. They're really popular guests. And they discuss a concept |
| 0:43.7 | they call a marriage meetup and hear the Aaron now talking about that with Focus President |
| 0:49.3 | and Broadcast host Jim Daly. |
| 0:51.5 | Well, Pam, welcome back to Focus. It's so good to be here. Yay. I love your enthusiasm. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, it's fun. Well, let me ask Bill, is that fun? Yeah, and it's genuine. Like she |
| 1:03.6 | I told Pam earlier in our marriage, you cannot drink coffee because you came into the |
| 1:08.3 | world pre-caffeinated. So it was very true. Pam is loaded with energy. Okay, so early this |
| 1:14.2 | morning, I was getting ready for the show and I was reading the crap and I jean sat down |
| 1:18.2 | and have a cup of coffee with me. And she was saying, you know, I kind of explained the |
| 1:22.4 | concept of marriage meetups and she said, oh, I like that. And I was like, really? Today's |
| 1:30.6 | your choice to win me over. But my wife, she loved the idea. She said, we should do this. |
| 1:37.9 | Amen. She's my new best friend. She's starting to do the marriage meetup. We're |
| 1:42.8 | going to have a meeting. She's advocates today. Yes, absolutely. This is an intervention. |
| 1:45.8 | This is an interview. We do have an gym daily. But, you know, frankly, that's what's funny. |
| 1:50.5 | I mean, I think typically opposites marry, not always, and I get that. But I think in |
| 1:56.6 | this area, jean really connected with the concept of having a weekly marriage meetup |
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