148. The Elephant in Your Marriage

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Do you have an annoyance in your marriage that seems to rear its ugly head every now and again? That one issue that seems to block you and your spouse from being on the same team. In-laws. Finances. How you parent your kids. Where you spend the holidays.

We all seem to have that one elephant. You know it's there, but most of the time it's hibernating in the cold, dark, corner of the basement, out of sight. Yet, every now and again, you feel the elephant coming up the stairs. Your reaction might be to pretend he's not coming. Or it might be that you see him walk into your living room so you obviously have to talk about him. So you do. You argue about him. You try to find a way to get him back into your basement, out of sight, but you can't agree on how to do that.

In this episode, we talk about our own elephant. We also give practical ways to finally address that one issue in your marriage and why talking about it actually takes away its power. For the sake of your marital intimacy, talk about the elephant.

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0:00.0	So we got into a massive argument the last night of our honeymoon.
0:04.4	I mean, it was one of the worst we've ever had.
0:09.0	I still say it was the worst we've ever had.
0:12.0	Christy's in tears.
0:13.6	Oh my gosh.
0:14.2	I felt so, I was like, what did I just do?
0:17.2	I totally, I married the wrong person.
0:19.8	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with
0:23.3	Dr. Josh and Christy Straub. Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were
0:29.6	famous at home. What is the elephant in your marriage? Welcome to the famous at home podcast. That's what we're talking about today. The elephant in your marriage, the thing that it just seems to be looming. It's something you probably don't want to talk about, but it always comes between you and your spouse. It's the thing that is almost so heavy or it's just been
0:56.6	such a thorn in your side that it often doesn't get talked about because it's prickly and it's
1:04.1	difficult and it causes such a rift and every time it's addressed it causes this distance between
1:10.0	you. So that's what we want to talk about today.
1:12.8	Yeah, and we have no idea what that means or looks like in our marriage.
1:16.2	So we're just talking about it.
1:18.0	Hypothetically.
1:18.6	Hypothetically.
1:18.8	Sure.
1:19.2	And that type of thing.
1:20.4	Oh, no.
1:20.8	We'll tell you exact examples from our marriage because this is something, it's just real.
1:25.6	It's something I think we all, we all harbor.
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