Being Kind When You Feel Like Being Mean
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
There are times when it's easy to be kind to everyone else, but rude your spouse. What do you do in those moments? John, Greg and Erin discuss things they've learned from a famous passage on love, 1 Corinthians chapter 13. Featuring Mr. Bob Lepine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, if you and I are honest, there are plenty of times when it's easy to be |
| 0:40.4 | kind and nice to everyone around us, but not to our spouse. I can be good and |
| 0:46.5 | kindhearted to people all day long and I can get home and within 10 minutes |
| 0:51.6 | I've got some negative thing I lay on Dina and I just I don't know why I don't |
| 0:57.8 | treat her as nicely and kindly as I want to. So this is a session for me, John |
| 1:03.2 | Fuller. I'm joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. They both do |
| 1:07.0 | counseling and so listen in. They lead the focus marriage team here and |
| 1:11.9 | seriously I laugh, but it's it is a problem. Why is it a problem? And why is it |
| 1:17.5 | so good Aaron to admit? Oh, I'm sorry. Like I did the other night. I actually |
| 1:21.7 | looked at Dina and I said, I'm so sorry. I was triggered and I just blurted |
| 1:25.7 | that out. It wasn't a good moment. Please forgive me. Well, because it |
| 1:29.8 | repairs it, it reestablishes connection. And so often we don't do that. And |
| 1:34.4 | then 20 times down the road, you know, walls start forming. And you know, |
| 1:39.6 | then your spouse is like, Oh, I got to protect myself. And that's not what |
| 1:43.4 | we want. And I smile when I think about this, you know, that we can be kind |
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