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He wanted something better for him and his wife.

Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective

and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage.

I'm Jim Daly.

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In a lot of ways marriage is slash marriage

is really devalued in our culture today and you can see the put downs the stereotypes and

so many of us unfortunately we have front row seats to marital breakdown and all the pain that that brings and that trauma causes a lot of people in our culture today to wonder if marriage is even worth it. I'm John Fuller,

joined as always by the couple who run our marriage department, Greg and Aaron Smalley, and

today we're going to hear from Ronnie Tyler, wholed with the question of is it worth it here she is with Jim

Daly.

Ronnie let me turn to you because I think you you represent so much of the modern era if I could say it that way where you made

some decisions describe those for us I think when you're 19 having your first

child take us through those 20-something years

and describe for us what you were living.

So yeah, I did.

I had my first child at 19,

and I still, you know, we didn't get married I was in college I was in

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