100% Commitment
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A good marriage is built on a foundation where both spouses are giving their best effort. However, what do you do when it feels like you're the only one doing all the work? John, Greg and Erin discuss how to respond when it seems like your spouse isn't doing his or her job. Featuring Pastor Kevin Thompson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. I heard a phrase that describes how marriage can really kind of go to |
| 0:39.6 | the next level and that is that marriage isn't a 50-50 deal. You give 50% and |
| 0:44.6 | your spouse gives 50%. We're each called to give 100% to the relationship. So |
| 0:51.7 | what do you do if your spouse isn't pulling their full 100%? We'll talk about |
| 0:56.0 | that today. I'm John Fuller along with Aaron and Greg Smolley. They lead the |
| 0:59.8 | focus marriage department here and Jim Daley spoke with pastor Kevin Thompson. He |
| 1:04.7 | has some wonderful tips on improving your relationship and here. Kevin addressed |
| 1:09.3 | the importance for total commitment from both spouses. Let me ask you. We're three |
| 1:15.0 | guys sitting at the table here and we've talked about the roof quite a bit that |
| 1:18.2 | idea of intimacy. I like the fact that you're positioning that in such a way that |
| 1:23.4 | the structure is partner and friendship is the foundation again because sometimes |
| 1:29.0 | I think we as men and I want to represent the female thought at this table in this |
| 1:33.1 | moment, just knowing my wife, Gene Well enough, you don't build the walls on top of |
| 1:37.1 | the roof. So meaning intimacy, physical intimacy. So I think speak to that |
| 1:43.2 | aspect, how do we make sure that we're building the partnership walls strong so |
| 1:50.0 | that the rooftop goes on and the partnership can hold the roof up that rooftop of |
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