When Kids Get in the Way
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Kids are a blessing, but they also require you to be more intentional to spend time with your spouse. John and the Smalley's open up about times they felt disconnected in their marriages when raising children. Plus, Jim Daly talks to Dave and Ashley Willis about making time for dates with your spouse, even if you have little kids.
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| 0:30.8 | Well, we got married and we had one child and then two and three and four and five and six. |
| 0:40.7 | And somewhere in there, we got distant. |
| 0:43.5 | And the friendship was there, but it wasn't cultivated. |
| 0:46.7 | The relationship was really struggling. |
| 0:49.1 | And we had to ask ourselves, what's really going on here? |
| 0:52.1 | Parenting, even one child can do that to you i'm just a masochist |
| 0:56.4 | i'm john fuller joined by gregg and aaron smally and they lead the focus marriage team |
| 1:00.6 | greg most of us have had that kind of creep situation where we don't know it it's the frog in the |
| 1:06.0 | kettle yeah but we realize oh my spouse and i were not we're not and I were not so close anymore. |
| 1:12.3 | What happened to my friend? |
| 1:13.6 | Right. |
| 1:14.0 | My best friend. |
| 1:15.0 | So what do we do to kind of first recognize and then respond in an appropriate manner? |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.1 | I know for me, there was an exact moment. |
| 1:25.9 | I was driving home from the office where i was working to home |
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