Becoming a Whole-Hearted Wife, Part 2
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 9 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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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
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| 0:42.0 | So I think with regard to conflict my default mechanism is to just shut down. |
| 0:48.1 | Shut up shut down go dark you know silent and that happens to me with some frequency. I look at my wife and I think, |
| 0:57.0 | I'm going to be quiet now because I'm just going to dig the hole deeper and deeper if I engage. |
| 1:03.4 | And every now and then there are these awkward silences. |
| 1:06.0 | We had one of those over the weekend where I just, she said something and I didn't respond. |
| 1:10.8 | And she didn't ask and I don't know if we'll ever go back to what that conversation was and I'm kind of feeling bad about it right now as we open this episode |
| 1:20.4 | I'm John Fuller my co-host is Greg's Molly. |
| 1:22.8 | We're going to hear more from Greg's wife, Aaron, |
| 1:25.0 | about how she was able to realize how she was dealing with things, |
| 1:29.0 | her default style, and frankly, some of the anger towards her family. |
| 1:34.0 | Here's Jim Daly talking now with Aaron Smalley. |
| 1:37.0 | Aaron, let me ask you though because I think some of this healing needs to occur |
| 1:42.0 | where you know you deal with the past to kind of |
| 1:47.0 | ask the Lord to get into the perhaps the dark closet of our life and it's not always the big things you know |
| 1:54.6 | pornography or something like that these can be relational things for example you and |
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