When Your Relationship Faces Heartbreak
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Every marriage faces heartbreak at some point. If you or a couple you're friends with is in a challenging season, John, Greg and Erin will share how your marriage can get stronger, even through the tough times. Featuring Mr. Jeff and Mrs. Sarah Walton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.9 | Every marriage that endures is going to face the pain of heartbreak and sorrow and loss, |
| 0:26.6 | and if you or a couple you know is walking through a particularly difficult time, we want you to |
| 0:31.6 | know that there is hope, there's light. I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, |
| 0:38.4 | Aaron. They lead our Focus Marriage team, and you two are always so open, so transparent. I think |
| 0:45.0 | you've shared dozens and dozens of struggles in your marriage, but today, what's something that God |
| 0:52.6 | has on your heart that you've walked through together, and you've seen your relationship improve |
| 0:58.8 | through that struggle. I would say looking back, one of the hardest seasons we walked into |
| 1:06.8 | was when our daughter Taylor went through her divorce. It was right before COVID, and it just |
| 1:13.2 | devastated us, knowing that this is what we do, that we put all of our efforts and energy into |
| 1:22.3 | really helping people have healthy marriages, including our own, but this kind of rocked the boat |
| 1:27.6 | for us because really it caused us to question a whole lot of, you know, if we can't do anything |
| 1:35.7 | to save our daughter's marriage, what does that mean about us? And of course, that was a whole |
| 1:41.6 | long process of us unpacking that in realizing that God could have, because we've seen it, |
| 1:48.6 | over and over again, sitting through those intensives, we've seen thousands of couples restored. |
| 1:54.5 | Yeah, God could have worked in that situation, but he didn't. He didn't. He didn't change her |
| 1:59.7 | husband's mind, because our daughter wanted the marriage. She wanted to go to an intensive, she |
| 2:03.7 | wanted to fight for the marriage, and he did not. And there wasn't a thing we tried to convince him, |
| 2:09.7 | but that didn't work, and so it just was finally just landing at, you know what, God could have, |
| 2:14.8 | and he didn't, because we've seen it, and it really sent us into somewhat of a crisis just |
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