Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

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today. When you get married, it's really important to always keep the

relationship with your spouse at the highest priority. Aside from your

relationship with God, this should be your most important relationship this

side of heaven. But keeping that friendship element of the marriage strong

doesn't happen by accident. It requires effort and initiative and

tensionality. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron and

they lead our marriage team. They do a lot of counseling and speaking and

writing together and we'll hear from them in a few moments. But first back to

a conversation Jim Daley and I had with Pastor Kevin Thompson who has some

really wonderful insights for keeping the communication strong between you and

your mate. You've mentioned a couple of ideas on how to develop that

friendship. You have some other ideas on how to nurture friendship. And especially

think of guys who you know we like the rooftop what you talked about the

intimacy is the roof. So we like to go to the roof pretty quickly. How do we

slow that down and make sure that the foundation of friendship as you

described it is really healthy. Yeah, I think the very first thing is we have to

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