Everybody around us this summer, I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it

in the last year that a lot of folks in their 30s that are our age that we're seeing

their marriages fall apart, and it's scared us.

After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale.

He wanted something better for he and his wife.

That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day.

Focus on the family's helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts

to see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage.

I'm Jim Daly.

Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better.

Working together, we can give families hope.

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Today, on focus on the family, we're returning to a really serious heartbreaking issue

that is putting many marriages at risk today.

It's a topic that's not going to be suitable for younger listeners.

So even though for my eyes, it looked like everything had fallen to ruins

and though this great divine cosmic trick had been played on me,

I still couldn't release that hope, that fear, that actually he had a plan.

He had a plan and I just had to hang on and just had to stick with it and be brave and look at my own stuff.

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