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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Working on You Before Your Spouse

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Real change in marriage occurs when we stop fixating on everything our spouse needs to change. It takes true character to focus on what you need to work on. John and Greg discuss this important topic for couples who are dating and considering marriage. Featuring Bill and Pam Farrel.

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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.

0:36.0

How many times have you heard someone say my spouse needs to change this or

0:40.7

change that it could be so easy to notice what your mate needs to work on. But

0:46.3

many times real progress is made in the relationship when you start working

0:50.8

on yourself. I'm John Fuller. I'm joined by Dr. Greg Smolley. He and his wife

0:55.8

Aaron lead our marriage team and let's go ahead and return to a conversation

0:59.4

Jim Daley and I had with Pam and Bill Ferrell. This is from a broadcast titled

1:04.6

thriving in the early years of marriage. And you can download the entire

1:09.4

conversation for free from our website. To share with a friend will have a link

1:14.0

for it in the show notes. Let's listen as Bill and Pam share how they

1:19.0

learned to work on themselves instead of complaining about each other.

1:23.2

Bill and Pam welcome back to focus on the family. It's such a joy to be

1:26.7

here. You know, focus helped build our marriage because we came from such

1:30.2

crazy backgrounds. We would tune in every day. And now we're here being able

1:34.4

to help other couples. It's wonderful to be able to boom, ring that back.

1:37.8

Yeah, I came to you how many times in the first five years of our marriage,

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