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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

When You Face a Winter Season

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Every season your marriage goes through has benefits to it. Even if it's a difficult time, your relationship can come out better on the other side. John, Greg and Erin share about the ways your marriage can grow in the winter season. Featuring Mrs. Debra Fileta.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Erin Smolley.

0:04.0

We all need encouragement and marriage.

0:06.5

So if you want biblical guidance on your journey, check out our podcast, Crazy Little Thing

0:11.1

Called Marriage, which I host with my husband, Dr. Greg Smolley.

0:15.3

We chat with some great folks about how you can make your marriage stronger every day.

0:20.1

Listen at crazylittlething Called Marriage.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.2

Here in Colorado Springs, the weather can go from snow in the morning to barefoot in the streets

0:44.2

in the afternoon.

0:45.2

That happened.

0:46.2

That happened to me one day.

0:47.6

My kids were shoveling outside and I came home and they were barefoot in the street.

0:51.0

It was like 50 degrees in sunshine.

0:53.0

And how many people called.

0:54.7

Nobody calls those children protected so good.

0:57.8

Just like the weather changes so often here in Colorado, marriages go through a lot of

1:01.8

different seasons and it can happen, boom, like that.

1:05.0

Some of them are more challenging than others, but each season can actually be beneficial

1:09.4

to your relationship.

1:10.5

Today, we're going to discuss making the most of a winter season in your marriage.

1:15.2

I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Erin Smolley.

1:18.2

They head up our marriage team here at Focus and let's go ahead and hear now a conversation

1:23.3

that author and counselor Deborah Fileta had with Jim Daly and me.

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