#109: An Emotionally Safe Marriage Part I

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Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

So often, couples tell us that communication is their greatest problem. But more than communication, empathy for what's going on within your spouse's heart is even more crucial to connection and intimacy. In fact, our willingness to genuinely show care and concern for our spouse's feelings is where great communication begins.

In this episode, we talk about what it takes to have an emotionally safe marriage. In particular, we talk about:

* What it means to be "emotionally safe"
* What hinders us from being emotionally safe for our spouse
* The three decisions you need to make for an emotionally safe marriage
* Why blame is the greatest barrier to change

Show Notes:

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0:00.0	Are you actually willing to be emotionally safe in your marriage?
0:04.5	And I want you to just stop for a second.
0:07.0	Because your initial answer is like, yes, I'm willing.
0:10.9	Like, tell me how.
0:12.4	The reality is, is let's find out if you actually are willing by how you're communicating to your spouse.
0:21.2	You're listening to the In This Together podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub,
0:26.0	a podcast dedicated to helping you live, love, and lead well as a spouse, a parent, and a human
0:32.9	being.
0:33.9	Because no matter where you're at on your journey, you're not alone.
0:38.9	We're in this together.
0:46.6	Welcome back to the In This Together podcast. Today we are talking about something that we have referenced and we talk about a lot, but we haven't really gone into a lot of depth. And that's
0:52.1	living an emotionally safe marriage so emotional
0:55.4	safety in marriage we've talked about emotional safety so much as it's really sort of the core
1:01.3	um of of sort of how we view relationships and the importance of it is just so profound and and
1:10.2	and yet we talk about it in marriage and it's just it
1:13.9	it's I think it just hits us all where we live because it's one thing to like understand it
1:20.5	it's another thing to apply it especially in marriage when things can get heated and we get
1:26.6	into that fight fight or freeze response and so that's
1:32.6	what we're going to talk about today what that looks like lived out because everybody looks normal
1:36.2	until we hit stress or duress everybody looks good when things are going well yeah it's not until
1:41.4	we hit that stress or duress in our lives or in relationships
1:45.2	that we see a person's true relationship style come out. And so that's why, you know, as I actually,
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