Great Habits can help create a healthier lifestyle and life and one of the best habits you

can establish for your marriage is to simply have consistent communication with your spouse.

And a great way to do that might be through a weekly meeting and we have Bill and Pam

Farrell talking about that today.

I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleagues Aaron and Greg Smalley and the Farrells spoke

with focus president Jim Daley about a concept they call a marriage meetup and they have

three components for how you and your spouse can approach that meeting.

So the first one which I actually think is the most important one is affirmation because

this meeting has to be different than every other meeting you have.

Like when you go into a business meeting with business partners, you're not worried about

the emotional climate of your relationship, you're not worried about when we're done with

this meeting, are we going to like each other enough that we would like to make love

to one another, like those don't come up in business hopefully, but in your marriage,

in your marriage those things are vital, like I wanted it, like one of the things I learned

early is I have to set a tone with Pam that says the only reason I'm having this meeting

with you is because I love you enough to connect my whole life to you.

So the affirmation in this meeting starts with a prayer with one another and a compliment.

So either something I love about you that I've seen this week or a reminder of why I

married you.

So it sets the tone that I'm glad to be here because of who you are.

That's really good.

And we also bring a verse that has crossed our path and we pray that verse over each

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