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slash get help. Well, we all bring some baggage into marriage. The key question you've got to

answer, though, is am I just looking at it or am I

dealing with it? I'm John Fuller, and I'm joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley. They lead our

marriage department here at Focus on the Family. We're going to kick off with a clip from Focus on

the Family with Jim Daly, in which Jim spoke with David and Krista Dunham.

And Krista is very open about some struggles she had, particularly with an eating disorder.

David, at this point, Krista, I don't know if you guys were engaged or just dating,

but she was at a college pretty far away from you and you were going

to school at a different university, it sounds like. How did that long distance confession come to you?

This was the first time, Krista, you had told anybody, right, that you had a problem.

Yeah. Yeah. And you're at these different schools eight hours away

i think and how did you react i don't know how i would have reacted to something like that you know

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