When Past Hurts Come Up

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

When a wife finds out her husband is struggling with pornography, many times, she feels a sense of, "I'm not good enough." The sting of the betrayal can even trigger hurts from the past. In those situations, what do you do? Greg, Erin and John offer a dose of encouragement to marriages that've been hurt by pornography. Featuring David and Kirsten Samuel.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:35.9	All of us have some baggage from our past and whether you recognize it or not,
0:40.2	those past hurts can be buried underneath the surface and they're going to
0:44.2	come up in ways that you don't expect. Today you're going to hear how God
0:48.1	redeemed a marriage after some hidden pain was revealed. I'm John Foller
0:53.2	along with my focus on the family colleagues, Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife
0:57.0	Aaron and we're going to hear now from Dave and Kirsten Samuel. They went
1:01.2	through a really dark period as a couple when Kirsten found out Dave was
1:06.3	addicted to pornography. She didn't know that the revelation of his sin would
1:12.1	reminder us some past wounds and hurts that she was experiencing. Here's Jim
1:16.6	Daley. Kirsten let me ask you again exploring the feelings that a spouse will
1:21.9	have. You're in this anger tumult. Your heart is raging in so many
1:28.4	directions. Trust has been broken. That sense of betrayal. I think I'm
1:32.4	painting the picture pretty well. But then you began to deal with your own
1:36.8	guilt and shame. Explain that. As a man, I'm not sure that would be my response
1:43.8	in a week or two. I would probably get hung up on the you betrayed me for a
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