Dr. Greg Smalley is a sweet guy. As vice president of Marriage and Family Formation at Focus on the Family, he helps couples prepare to have life-long marriages, helps good marriages get better, helps marriages going off the rails recover, and he’s an amazing friend of Perry and Shawna Mornings!  First, preparing for marriage starts with the reality that we can’t prepare for everything.

Then, dark times in marriage are where we develop the grit that says, “We can make it through anything!” Next, pre-marital counseling creates the muscle memory to get help when you’re married. Then, thriving as a single longing to be married.

Then, Greg comforts a Perry and Shawna Mornings listener whose marriage has died. Next, the key to actor Samuel L Jackson’s 41 year marriage. Then, what Greg learned from his counselor in the past week about his anger. Next count on the unexpected in marriage, Perry’s son Taylor and his bride are facing her cancer just 21 months in. Finally, wedding gifts that will count! Please share the show.

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