Becoming Teammates in Marriage [Emotionally Healthy Marriage 5 of 5]

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 5 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating an Emotionally Healthy Marriage.

Would you describe your spouse as your greatest teammate? It probably depends on the day, right? We all have opponents that war against the connection in our marriage and cause conflict. But how do we fight? Do we see the opponent for what it is, or do we make our spouse out to be the opponent?

In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about how to name the opponent, talk about your dance, and take responsibility for how to engage with your spouse.

They talk about:

The importance of finding out what's going on in your spouse's heart rather than what's going on between the two of you
Protective mechanisms and how they hold us back from communicating the truth of what we want from our spouse
Why taking 100% responsibility for your role in the conflict disarms your spouse
Practical ways to show up differently for your spouse

We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.

Show Notes:
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Download the free discussion guide pdf for the Summer Series. https://www.famousathome.com/summerseriessignup

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Time stamps:
(0:30) Introduction
(5:40) How to name your opponent
(8:55) How our opponents become elephants
(11:19) Feeling safety in the relationship
(13:45) The one phrase that matters more than any other to becoming teammates
(16:57) The role you play in conflict and how to identify your dance
(20:25) When one spouse isn’t willing to change
(22:25) Entering into and being repentant of your own actions
(23:55) Addressing the very thing holding you back from drawing closer to your spouse
(26:20) The most sanctifying verses for a healthy marriage
(27:00) Our single greatest reason for how we’ve grown in our marriage

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's going on within your spouse's heart matters more than what's going on between the two of you.
0:06.5	So let me say that again.
0:07.4	What's going on within your spouse's heart, what's going on within Christy's heart,
0:11.0	matters more than what's going on between the both of us.
0:13.9	You are listening to the Famous At Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:19.7	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:29.4	Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast.
0:31.8	We are talking about marriage, marriage.
0:36.2	And this is the final episode in a five-part series. Today we're
0:40.0	talking about becoming teammates in marriage. So we've set the stage. We've talked about all
0:44.0	the difficult things. We've talked about emotional safety and what it is. Today we're talking
0:47.8	about how do we really become teammates. How do we develop an us against the world attitude?
0:53.7	I want to say this. If you haven't subscribed to
0:55.5	our weekly devotional, we'd love for you to be able to do that. That is free. We send it out every
0:59.2	week. It is an opportunity for you to enter into how I'm journeying through life, fathering as a
1:06.6	husband, as a father, and as a son of God and my relationship with God.
1:10.8	And we just send those out through Famous at home.
1:13.0	And we would love for you to sign up for that.
1:15.0	We put that link in the show notes there today for you to sign up.
1:18.9	I hope who you enjoyed this summer series, today's final PDF download is, has all five
1:25.7	episodes in there for the workbook, questions for you to be able to
1:30.3	use with your small group, with your spouse, and the like. And so we hope you're enjoying these.
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