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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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You want fun dates with your spouse, but what if you simply don't have much time on your plate? Jay and Laura Laffoon speak with Jim Daly about how you can still make date nights a priority, even if you have a demanding schedule. Then, John asks Greg about how incremental changes in your relationship can have a major impact on having more time with your mate.
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| 0:30.9 | Last time on this podcast, we talked about prioritizing a weekly date night, but you might be thinking, |
| 0:40.9 | can't do that. I don't have time. Don't have the money. Well, stay tuned. I'm John Fuller, |
| 0:46.0 | along with Aaron and Greg Smalley, and they host not just this podcast, but also crazy little |
| 0:51.4 | thing called marriage. Love the show, Greg and Aaron. Thank you for your work on that. |
| 0:55.7 | We're going to turn now to a couple that has some great insights |
| 0:59.7 | about how you can spend time together. |
| 1:02.7 | Jay and Laura LaFoon have been married for over four decades, |
| 1:06.5 | and so they know a thing or two about date nights. |
| 1:09.7 | They practice it, and they have some ideas on prioritizing date night. |
| 1:13.9 | Let me ask you probably the most common thing we get. |
| 1:18.0 | That's a little dangerous to say because everybody's living a different experience. |
| 1:21.3 | But a common issue is busyness. |
| 1:24.5 | I mean, a lot of households now, both husband and wife are working, those with |
| 1:29.8 | kids. I mean, the pressures are immense. The good news is, just hang in. It's not going to last |
| 1:34.8 | forever, and it's going to be really rewarding at the end, in my opinion. But that is the big issue, |
| 1:40.6 | busyness in life. And you know what? If you knew our schedule, we can't do a date night. You don't know how busy we are. Work, work, work, work, work, the kids, school, sports clubs. There's no time for us. What do you say? One of the things, and I don't think this is necessarily biblical, but I think we can all understand it, Satan doesn't want us bad. He wants us busy. Yeah, that's true. Because when we're bad, we know we're doing something against the Lord's will. But oftentimes when we're busy, well, Lord, we're doing, I'm doing this for my wife. I'm doing this for my family. I'm doing this for the church. I'm doing it for the community. And we don't realize that every time we say yes to something, we're also saying no to something else. And so |
| 2:18.3 | prioritizing is critical because when we can prioritize, it allows us to say yes to the things we should |
| 2:25.5 | be saying yes to and no to the things we shouldn't. You know what's really important, though, |
| 2:29.2 | is putting kind of good examples in place there. One thing that I did is I got home by about 530. I didn't |
| 2:36.2 | expect the staff to stay late because I'm robbing their time with their family here at |
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