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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Becoming a Whole-Hearted Wife, Part 1

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Your upbringing may be manifesting in your marriage in ways you don't even notice. John and Greg talk about recognizing the signs and avoiding unhealthy patterns. Featuring Erin Smalley.

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After four abortions, Distara finally learned the truth.

0:04.3

I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human

0:10.8

being in your stomach.

0:14.0

And I'm like, wow, that's pro life.

0:16.8

I'm Jim Daly.

0:18.0

Together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms,

0:21.5

giving families hope.

0:23.0

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0:29.0

Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more

0:36.4

relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast.

0:42.0

A lot of people have said something like this.

0:44.3

I am never going to be like my mom or my dad and I'm never going to have a marriage like my

0:50.0

parents but then our upbringing kind of shows itself and it affects our marriage

0:55.6

more than we intend and that that's been the case for me Greg I I didn't say I'll

1:00.0

never be like my mom and dad they're they're people. But there are some habits that I brought into

1:04.4

the relationship. We tended to kind of explode and get over the anger and move on.

1:09.8

Didn't work so good with Dina. I mean, the first time I raised my voice and exploded, you know, five minutes later I'm like whatever, she was still quivering.

1:18.0

It was a personal thing for weeks. Yeah, it was wrong. Yeah, so that kind of thing happens, but we're going to hear now from

1:25.9

Greg's wife, Aaron, about her perspective of how her childhood manifested in their marriage and to open the conversation here's Jim Daly.

1:35.0

We talked last time at the beginning about statistics that show that about 80% of

1:40.5

women are feeling lonely in their marriages. That's a big number, 80%.

1:47.0

Aaron, you're concerned about that, aren't you? Because the Christian marriage

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