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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Best of 2025: How Love Styles Can Help You Grow Closer as a Couple (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting, Relationships

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Our earliest childhood interactions will shape how we connect and communicate with each other as adults. The Yerkoviches and Camerons call these ways we interact “love styles,” and they describe how we can overcome wounds of our past to improve and strengthen our relationships, especially in marriage. 

 

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0:00.0

Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours?

0:07.3

That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called

0:12.1

Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges

0:17.7

that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally.

0:22.8

So, I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.4

This is an area we had to take to the cross to say, Lord, my fearful pleaser side is not working here in this relationship.

0:40.7

Her avoidant dismissive side is not working.

0:44.0

It's a bad dance.

0:45.2

It's crushing you probably.

0:46.6

It was crushing.

0:48.0

That's Mylan Yerkovich describing how our childhood experiences follow us into adulthood

0:53.4

and frankly into all of the relationships

0:56.1

we experience as adults. I'm John Fuller and welcome to another Best of 2025 edition of Focus

1:02.6

on the Family with Jim Daly. Myelin and his wife Kay were part of a panel conversation that we

1:08.2

recorded earlier this year. They were joined by Mark and Amy Cameron,

1:12.8

and they're essentially taking over the ministry of Love Styles that the Yerkovich's

1:17.3

started so many years ago. John, I'm not surprised this panel of experts became part of our

1:22.5

best of collection. They provide such great content, understanding how our earliest childhood experiences can

1:29.9

imprint on us emotionally and behaviorally in both positive and negative ways. And I think we know in our

1:37.1

hearts that is true. If you've ever wondered why you think and feel the way you do, especially

1:42.7

in relationships, the love styles concept

1:45.4

that Mylan and Kay developed can provide some great insights for you. As we learned last time,

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