When Your Parent's Marriage Wasn't Good

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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How can you be a good spouse if your parents didn't model a healthy marriage for you? John, Greg and Erin offer hope to those who didn't come from a good family. Featuring Mr. Bob Lepine.

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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.
0:35.8	The truth is when we become adults, our childhood doesn't necessarily get left
0:40.6	behind. We bring all the influence of our parents into adulthood. And if your
0:45.7	parents didn't model a very good marriage for you, well, that's our topic
0:49.8	today. And I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg Smolley and his wife,
0:53.2	Aaron. They lead our marriage department here at Focus and they're very
0:57.1	passionate about helping others. Bob Lupine is back with us. Another part of
1:02.0	the discussion that Jim Daley and I had with Bob offering hope to those who
1:06.6	grew up in let's call him less than perfect homes. Bob, one of the things you
1:10.4	mentioned in the book is what you learned from your own parents marriage. I
1:13.9	mean, my parents marriage was a disaster. Thankfully, I didn't learn much other
1:18.0	than don't do that. Yeah. How about you? Yeah. My dad was a veteran of World War
1:24.2	II. He was D plus one at Normandy. So he saw the action. He saw the action
1:30.7	passed out on the beach, woke up back in a hospital bed in England with a knee
1:35.7	injury. Eventually went back and joined the army in France and moved forward. I
1:41.5	had in my office for years his his army of occupation metal, his purple
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