Becoming Teammates in Marriage

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Would you describe your spouse as your greatest teammate? 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

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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.
0:14.0	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
0:23.5	that we were famous at home. Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today we're talking
0:34.2	about marriage. Before we jump in, Here's a word from our sponsors.
0:41.4	Welcome back.
0:43.2	We are talking about marriage today.
0:46.1	Getting on the same team with your spouse.
0:47.2	This is something we've talked about.
0:53.8	We talk about this a lot, but we just really felt it important to get back to what matters most, and that is our relationship with each other
0:57.0	because we're just hearing a lot. I mean, we're in a busy, we're in a busy part of the year, right?
1:03.7	It's springtime. We just come out of Easter. Kids are getting ready to do end of school stuff.
1:09.5	If you, whether you home school or you know, your kids go to school, there's just end of school stuff if you whether you home school or you know your
1:11.5	kids go to school there's just end of school stuff going on there's activities there's a lot happening
1:16.4	at this time of year and i think one of the biggest things that we just are hearing right now is
1:21.8	you know all these good things are going on and you know we've got all these opportunities and
1:26.3	ministry opportunities and all these things all good things are happening but yet at the end of the day one of the things we really
1:32.2	want to focus on is our marriage and we're just feeling like our marriage isn't doing as great as
1:37.2	we would like it to be doing and so we wanted to talk how do we get on the same team how do we
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