Best of 2024: How Your Birth Order Shapes Your Marriage
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Your birth order reveals some important clues about your personality and your relationship with loved ones. Dr. Kevin Leman discusses how birth order can affect your marriage. He reveals which pairings are the most complementary, and which ones might induce more conflict. Everyone is made uniquely, and Dr. Leman wants all couples to lean into their birth order strengths to make the most out of their marriages. At the end of this engaging conversation, we open the floor to the audience so that they might ask Dr. Leman specific questions regarding the subject matter.
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| 0:00.0 | So the circumstances were that I had just given my life to Christ after having been a runaway, |
| 0:07.0 | drug abuser, sexually abused, in and out of mental institutions with a single mom and kind of a distant father. |
| 0:15.0 | Anne's life was a mess. She didn't know the first thing about how to be a good wife or mother. |
| 0:21.3 | So focused on the family was like mana to me. Every day, I needed wisdom. I needed guidance. |
| 0:28.8 | I needed the lessons and the teaching that came every day from 11 to 1130 into my kitchen. |
| 0:36.5 | And I know today that my life has changed because of |
| 0:39.6 | Focus on the Family. I'm Jim Daly. Working together, we can give families hope and equip more |
| 0:46.4 | parents like Anne. And thanks to a special match right now, any gift you send will be doubled. Call 800 |
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| 1:00.7 | The little boy, or little girl you once were, guess what? |
| 1:04.4 | You still are. |
| 1:05.3 | And so you take that birth order with you and you take it into marriage and you live it out in the place of work and everything |
| 1:12.2 | else and it's to know who you are what you came from is important and you're affected by |
| 1:19.6 | what's above you in the family much more than what's beneath you in the family that's Dr. Kevin |
| 1:25.0 | Lehman describing the impact of birth order on relationships in your family, especially in your marriage. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm John Fuller, and this is the first of many best of 2024 shows we have for you this month on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:38.7 | Dr. Lehman was our guest earlier this year, and his birth order message really resonated with you. |
| 1:43.8 | We wanted to share it again with you, in fact. |
| 1:46.3 | John, Kevin has been talking about this topic for the past 40 years. You know, there's a handful of authors that really hit a theme. |
| 1:53.7 | And Kevin has hit a theme here with the birth order book. My problem is when he says what's above you, what's beneath you, I'm the end. I'm the baby. |
| 2:01.7 | Everything's ahead of me. So they beat me mercilessly. No, they treated me. My siblings were great |
| 2:08.0 | and protected me. Of course. But I'm sure they tease me a bit too. Birth order may not be an exact |
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