ASK A+K: "What if your spouse wasn't taught to show EMPATHY?"

Dear Young Married Couple

Adam & Karissa King

Christianity, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In today's episode, we featured another question from YOU! "How can a spouse learn to be more empathetic when they were not shown empathy growing up?" We have three answers for you, so listen in on this quick 10-minute episode! :) Are you enjoying these mini ASK episodes with your voices recorded in them?⁠ You can record your own question for our next episode here: Connect with us on IG/FB: @dearyoungmarriedcouple www.dearyoungmarriedcouple.com Join us for the next Monthly Live Date Night where we dig into some of these topics with you LIVE for 90 minutes this month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Welcome to the Dear Young Mary Couple podcast. Today, we are going to take a question from one of you.
0:36.2	So here we go. How can a spouse learn to be more empathetic when they were not shown empathy growing up?
0:49.6	All right.
0:50.8	So we have three responses to this.
0:53.7	We're going to start with number one, which is,
0:56.8	and this might sound basic if you know empathy well and you know how to show empathy, but this is
1:01.2	the number one response. Try to put yourself in the other person's shoes. And really, that's what
1:09.1	empathy is. It's trying to really understand and feel what the other person is feeling.
1:15.6	So you might be thinking like, well, I just don't want to put myself in their shoes.
1:20.3	That, you know, their shoes are too big or too small or whatever.
1:24.1	But I think we have to lay aside that I just don't want to. Yeah. Sort of attitude,
1:29.9	because when you are in a marriage or even friendship, for that matter, when you're married,
1:37.7	God calls us to love. And, you know, it's really interesting if you understand that the
1:43.1	biblical languages, Greek has abstract terms, but know, it's really interesting if you understand that the biblical languages.
1:45.6	Greek has abstract terms, but Hebrew, which a lot of the Bible is written in and talks about love in the Old Testament, in Hebrew, there is no abstract term.
1:57.5	There are no abstract terms in Hebrew.
2:00.3	So when we talk about love, you can't talk about it
2:03.7	aside from loving or doing something to someone. So loving is an action. Yeah. So when it talks about,
2:13.8	you know, loving, part of loving would be empathy.
2:18.4	And empathy is simply trying to understand someone else.
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