Three Roles a Spouse Should Play
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Many couples will tell you that a strong friendship is one of the best aspects of marriage. But if couples are not careful, it can be easy to get caught in the business of everyday life. John, Greg and Erin talk about how they encourage couples to keep their friendship strong, even when times get busy. Featuring Pastor Kevin Thompson.
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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. |
| 0:35.8 | It's hard to believe and I feel pretty old when I say this, but I've known Dina my |
| 0:39.8 | wife for almost 40 years. Wow. And we have been friends for a long, long |
| 0:45.0 | time. I think one of my favorite aspects of of our relationship in terms of |
| 0:50.4 | the friendship that we have is the ability to go out into God's creation and |
| 0:55.1 | just enjoy a walk and casual conversation. We've enjoyed doing that for the |
| 1:00.9 | entirety of our relationship. And no matter how long you've been married, that |
| 1:05.3 | friendship you have with your spouse is worth keeping strong. I'm John Fuller in |
| 1:09.9 | the studio with Greg and Aaron Smolley and you two just celebrated your 30th |
| 1:14.2 | anniversary as a couple. It's important to keep that friendship going. How have |
| 1:19.3 | you made it a strong these past 30 years? I would say that it has been a |
| 1:24.6 | priority for both of us to keep our connection strong, which includes our |
| 1:30.0 | friendship. You think about it. Most couples started as friends. What was it |
| 1:34.7 | that caused us to be good friends? And for Greg and I, we had connections around |
| 1:39.7 | friends in college. And then we also enjoyed a lot of the same things. You know, |
| 1:44.4 | we would go and play pick up basketball. She has a leave or not. Wicked outside |
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