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🗓️ 30 May 2024
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What can you do when your spouse says, "I want out of this marriage?" Greg tells John the story of how he and Erin reached a difficult time in their marriage. Also Toni and Carey Nieuwhof talk with Jim Daly about how they went to counseling after Toni confessed she wanted to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | It's got to be one of the most shocking things to hear when your spouse says I want out of this marriage. |
| 0:12.0 | We know that a lot of you have been through this and so if |
| 0:16.8 | this is something that you're dealing with or you know somebody who's going |
| 0:20.3 | through this please know focus on the family wants to help I'm John |
| 0:24.2 | Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley they oversee our marriage team here and |
| 0:27.9 | Greg you and Aaron actually reached a point where you felt something isn't right and I mean did you wonder is this going to make it? |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah there was a really tough season about three years indoor marriage that I really wasn't sure that Aaron wanted to stay married. I was |
| 0:45.9 | confused. We were really hurting thinking that we were suffering in silence and |
| 0:51.8 | that no one really knew what we were going through. |
| 0:54.7 | And this woman, her name is Carrie, her husband Gary, she called over looking for |
| 0:59.7 | air and I answered the phone and she said, hey hey Carrie she goes hey I want to talk to |
| 1:05.9 | Aaron and I go well Aaron left and in her response to me was, oh Greg, I'm so sorry. I was so worried that this was going to happen. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh, she was thinking Aaron left you all together. Oh my goodness. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm thinking Aaron went to the store. |
| 1:26.0 | Left to go grocery shopping. |
| 1:28.0 | Do you know something that I don't know? |
| 1:30.0 | And honestly, there were seconds of this sort of awkward silence and |
| 1:35.4 | Carrie finally went, I am so embarrassed. |
| 1:38.1 | She goes, however, if I'm being honest, something's going on. |
| 1:43.0 | We can just, Gary and I can see it, we feel it. |
| 1:45.4 | Why don't you guys come over tonight |
| 1:47.1 | and let's have dinner together and let's talk. |
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