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Verity by Phylicia Masonheimer

066 | Building a Healthy Marriage: On Common Interests

Verity by Phylicia Masonheimer

Phylicia Masonheimer

Christianity, Theology, Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when your spouse doesn't share any of your favorite leisure activities, music, or hobbies?   Josh and Phy are very familiar with this problem! In this episode they discuss how Phil. 2:4 informs our view of hobbies in marriage, how to communicate about activities, and how to grow together in having fun. They also discuss the impact of video games on marriage and how to communicate about them.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

0:07.0

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith. Ask questions,

0:13.1

seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. You don't have to settle

0:19.4

for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper, God is just as ready to take you

0:25.4

there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian. Welcome back to Verity podcast friends.

0:32.8

This is Felicia Masonheimer. I am the host of Verity, and we are an episode 11 of the Honest

0:39.0

Marriage Series, almost done only one episode left. My husband Josh is here with me.

0:45.0

Hey guys. And we are talking today about leisure activities and cultivating common interests.

0:52.4

Have we ever had a problem with that? No. Never. We don't struggle with common interests.

0:59.7

If you've listened to the whole series, you might remember that in our pre-marital counseling,

1:05.2

our counselor pointed out that the area where we had the greatest difference, the least

1:11.2

commonality was in our leisure activities and things that we did together from music that we

1:18.7

both like to hobbies, to sports, any and all of it. There was actually nothing that we really had

1:26.6

in common. In fact, I'm trying to think back. And can you think of anything that we genuinely both

1:33.4

enjoyed at that point? Skiing, but we didn't really do any of that when we were in our early stage

1:42.0

of marriage. That's true. So skiing, we had a meal. Yeah. And we went to movies, I guess. But we

1:48.3

didn't like the same movies. So I let you go to Lincoln with your friend. Lincoln? Yes. Yeah.

1:57.5

Well, all that to say, we did not share a lot of the same interests. I am more of a reader. I

2:05.2

love history. I love, you know, going to historical sites. And Josh, what kinds of things do you like?

2:13.9

I'm a little more of a nerd, so I like technology and pool and bullying and games.

2:24.0

Yeah, video games and stuff like that. So it's not really the same alley. Yeah, definitely.

2:33.3

Pretty different in terms of what we enjoy. And I think this may bring up to some people,

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