When Your Spouse Needs to Get Healthier
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
What do you do if your spouse is making unhealthy lifestyle choices? Dave Willis talks with Jim Daly about how his wife Ashley encouraged him to go to the doctor and deal with his health issues. Plus, Greg and Erin address how to respond well if you've tried talking to your mate about their diet and lifestyle, but he or she hasn't listened yet.
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| 0:30.9 | What do you do if your spouse is making a choice that you consider unhealthy, but they're just not interested? |
| 0:40.8 | I'm John Fuller, joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage department here at Focus, |
| 0:45.3 | and we're going to turn our attention to a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, |
| 0:49.2 | in which Jim spoke with Dave and Ashley Willis about a health concern that Ashley had to confront Dave about. |
| 0:56.7 | Dave, Ashley, commented on this a minute ago. You also found yourself in some difficulty. |
| 1:03.5 | Can you describe that? And then how Ashley responded to you and was it helpful? |
| 1:08.5 | Oh, she's the most helpful. Like, she's wisely said before, and I love |
| 1:12.3 | that. She said a strong marriage rarely has two strong people at the same time. It's usually a |
| 1:16.7 | husband and wife taking turns being strong for each other in the moments when the other's |
| 1:20.1 | week. And she has been the strong one 95% of the time. So that one season she described was one of the |
| 1:27.3 | opportunities I had, |
| 1:28.3 | and I did count it as a privilege to be strong for her in those moments, even though I still was |
| 1:32.9 | out of my league and completely unsure of what to do. I knew if I can just be present and be the |
| 1:38.2 | place where she can lean and the place where she feels safe, then I'm going to be doing my part |
| 1:42.5 | as a husband. But she's done that for me over and over again through a variety of different things. But fast-forwarding to more recently, I've had some health challenges. I kind of thought, I'm never going to have health challenges, right? I'm never would go to the doctor. At least in your mind, you think that. In my mind, I'm like, I'm healthy. Then something happens. |
| 2:01.2 | She kept saying, you need to go the doctor. |
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