Transform Your Marriage Through Simple Lifestyle Shifts (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Marriage isn’t built in a single defining moment—it’s formed in the everyday choices couples make with their words, their attitudes, and their actions. Dave and Ashley Willis join us to explore how small, intentional shifts in marriage can lead to lasting change. Drawing on Scripture and decades of family ministry experience, they offer practical tools to help you strengthen your connection and build a marriage that reflects Christ’s love.
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| 0:31.6 | I mean, there's many, many things that we want to leave behind as a legacy, but I think the |
| 0:36.3 | biggest one is that marriage is awesome. |
| 0:39.0 | Like, you know, even in the hard moments, marriage is wonderful. It is a gift and that there is |
| 0:43.7 | hope even in the hard times. That's something that we always want to point to. But I think for every |
| 0:48.0 | couple, just coming back to that reason that God brought them together, because I think in hard |
| 0:52.1 | seasons, especially those broken seasons we talked about, we lose sight of that because we're just in critical condition. We're just trying |
| 0:58.4 | to survive, right? But in order to thrive, we have to think about that bigger picture. That's |
| 1:04.0 | Ashley Willis, and she and her husband Dave join us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Bailey. And we're |
| 1:09.6 | glad you're here. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:11.3 | John, here's a book title that should grab everybody. Do marriage better. Who doesn't want |
| 1:16.9 | that book? And I have prepped for the show. There are so much good stuff in here. Here's the |
| 1:22.7 | best part, the subtitle, seven simple shifts for a deeper connection. And our guests are talking about |
| 1:29.3 | little things you can do that make big differences. And I think that's been my observation about |
| 1:34.3 | marriage. When Gene and I hit a tough spot, it's usually because one of us has said something |
| 1:39.6 | a little off that sets the other one a skew. Why did you say it like that? That kind of hurt my feelings, |
| 1:46.3 | whatever it might be. And if we could be a little more thoughtful about how we communicate and in |
| 1:51.4 | other areas of our lives, how we interact with each other, man, you can have a marriage that is |
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