When Issues Go Unaddressed
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
All of us have baggage. The key is to not sweep it under the rug, but to deal with it. Greg, Erin and John will help couples talk about and deal with past issues. Featuring Pastor D.A. and Elicia Horton.
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| 0:00.0 | The Stara's first pregnancy was terminated when she was 15 years old. |
| 0:06.0 | She didn't understand what was happening. |
| 0:08.0 | After three more abortions, she finally learned the truth. |
| 0:12.0 | I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human being in your stomach. |
| 0:21.0 | And I was like, wow, that's pro life. |
| 0:24.7 | Today, Dostara has six children who represent God's love and forgiveness in her life. |
| 0:31.0 | And today, Dostara is a pro-life advocate. |
| 0:34.3 | So it's focus on the family has definitely sharpened me and I'm looking forward to |
| 0:38.8 | continuing to being sharpening. I'm not embarrassed anymore about the choices that I made. I'm wanting to help. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms giving these families hope. Donate at |
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the family marriage podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. So before you and your spouse got married everything was perfect. It was easy. It was natural. It was organic. But then you got married and now it's not so pretty. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and Greg I know that you've seen this time and again |
| 1:26.8 | maybe you have a friend who experienced this kind of thing and certainly not me or |
| 1:32.0 | us no no you're perfect. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, we had a perfect engagement and then a perfect first couple of years of years. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, one of the things, just hearing you say that what comes to mind is I I I feel like |
| 1:48.1 | Aaron we talked we must have talked about this before we got married but it really came into light once we were married |
| 1:56.0 | was just figuring out like where to go to church and we grew up very different I |
| 1:59.6 | grew up in the southern Baptist denomination ear Erang grew up Catholic, both believers, |
| 2:05.3 | both passionate about our relationship with Christ. |
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