When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

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I think it's fairly obvious to many of us that if we just understood our spouse a little bit better and how they're wired

it could prevent a whole lot of conflict, right?

I certainly have found out that my wife

Dina and I are so different and when we have an issue it can escalate because

one of us isn't understanding the other. It can be over something small and usually is

and sometimes it becomes quite big and fortunately that's not too often. I'm John Fuller along

with Greg and Er and Smalley and I won't ask for

numbers but what would you say just generally speaking how many arguments could

be avoided by couples out there if they just took a moment to understand better

who their spouse is and what that personality is. Well I would say all combat

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