The Roller Coaster of Recovery
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When a marriage has been hurt by betrayal, the road of recovery takes time. It's not an easy journey, but healing is possible with God's help. John, Greg and Erin offer a healthy perspective for couples traveling the road to recovery. Featuring Mr. Mark and Mrs. Jill Savage.
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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 |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.2 | If you've been unfaithful and you've confessed your sin to your spouse, you might |
| 0:40.5 | think, OK, I've done my part. Let's move on. But the truth is just as a wound |
| 0:47.1 | physically needs time to heal, your spouse's heart needs time to recover |
| 0:51.3 | emotionally. And if you or a couple you know is in a difficult recovery |
| 0:55.8 | process, I'm so glad you've joined us today. I'm John Foller along with Greg |
| 1:00.5 | and Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage team here at Focus on the Family. |
| 1:04.3 | And let's go ahead and hear a continuation of a conversation that Jim Daley |
| 1:08.9 | and I had with Mark and Jill Savage. Their story is about how God healed |
| 1:13.7 | their marriage even after Mark had an affair. And in this clip, they're going |
| 1:18.0 | to describe some of the ups and downs they faced during the early stages of |
| 1:22.6 | their relational recovery. |
| 1:24.5 | Once the affair is confessed, the guilty spouse begins to feel better. You |
| 1:29.1 | know, you've got it off your chest, sort of speak. It's out in the open. |
| 1:32.5 | That part of the hard road is done and you're feeling lighter if I can say it |
| 1:38.3 | that way. But the victim, the spouse that's, you know, been betrayed, they're |
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