A Safe Place to Talk

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

"When it's been a long day, having a considerate spouse to share your feelings with is a wonderful gift. But how can you tell your mate what's really going on when you feel upset? John, Greg and Erin provide some guidelines for expressing anger without being rude to your spouse.

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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. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You
0:35.6	can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash
0:40.4	marriage podcast. It sure is a great feeling when you can come home and your
0:45.8	spouse is a safe person to talk to. You've had a long day and you just sit
0:50.1	down and start sharing heart to heart and deep down we all want to feel secure
0:55.0	when we're with our spouse. I'm John Fuller and here in the studio with me are
0:59.9	the couple who run our marriage team at focus on the family Dr. Greg Smalley and
1:04.7	his wife Aaron and you two are so candid about your relationship and I so
1:09.0	appreciate that Aaron. You've developed a great safety with Greg what are some
1:14.8	of your emotions about you know coming and sharing deeply with him. Well as
1:19.4	you even asked that question sharing deeply emotions those are like my favorite
1:24.2	words and so I get super excited even thinking about it. She's got a lot of
1:28.1	emotions. She's like to pick off right now. I love
1:31.6	exhilaration because I'm with my husband. Yeah. I love coming home at the end of
1:35.8	a long day of seeing clients or whatever I've been up to for the day coming
1:40.3	home and just being able to share. Gosh this happened today and this is how I
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