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Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast

When a Friend Calls You Out

Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Having supportive friends is one of the best ways to keep your marriage strong. Jim Turner tells Jim Daly a story about a time a friend called him out on something. Plus, Erin Smalley shares what women need from friends who love them.

 

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0:00.0

God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope.

0:24.1

Visit truthrising.com today. That's truthrising.com.

0:30.9

One of the best ways to keep your marriage strong is to surround yourself with friends who will tell you the truth.

0:42.1

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron Smalley.

0:45.7

They lead the Focus Marriage team, and we're going to jump right in now to a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

0:52.3

Jim spoke with Jim Turner, who admitted that in his first marriage, he was emotionally

0:57.4

distant from his wife.

0:59.1

He has since learned from his early mistakes.

1:01.9

And today, he talks about how his friend Matt was brutally honest with him.

1:07.0

What role did Matt play in saying, hey, Jim, you could see this a little differently?

1:12.6

Matt's one of those kind of guys that he's able to compartmentalize, okay, and he's able to get things done.

1:18.2

But he also has very, very clear relational connection with Lisa, his wife.

1:26.2

Incredible as I walked alongside him for years to watch their relationship.

1:31.3

They've been on the broadcast.

1:32.5

I learned, yeah.

1:33.2

I learned a lot from Matt.

1:35.4

But Matt and I were meeting weekly.

1:38.7

I was going through a divorce at the time from my first wife.

1:42.5

And we met every week just so I could survive.

1:47.6

And she was the one a moment ago you're talking about who struggled with your lack of connection, right?

1:53.0

Eventually, it was too much for her.

1:55.2

She couldn't live with it.

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