Best of 2025: How to Have Meaningful Conversations with Your Spouse

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Communication is a key factor in any healthy relationship, especially when nurturing your connection with your spouse. In this Best of 2025 episode, Heather Holleman and her husband, Ashley, join us to share practical insights on communicating effectively within marriage while living out a gospel-centered life together. Their encouragement serves as inspiration to guide you on how to strengthen your marriage through intentional care and conversations.

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0:00.0	Ken spends a lot of time away from home, working on the pipeline in Alaska, and our podcast has become his lifeline.
0:08.2	Focus on the family has helped my marriage by leaps and bounds. You give us so much meat and potatoes to think about.
0:16.7	Like, don't focus on yourself. Put yourself in your spouse's shoes. What are they going through down there?
0:22.0	Ken finds our content so helpful.
0:24.2	He's eager to share it with others.
0:26.4	It can hit home.
0:27.5	Hey, I'm going through that same thing.
0:29.2	That's why I enjoy listening.
0:31.4	So I spread that to other coworkers who might not know Christ,
0:36.5	who might be having a bad day. You get to know them.
0:39.6	Say, hey, by the way, listen to this Focus on the Family podcast. I'm Jim Daly. Right now, we need
0:45.5	your help to deliver hope and joy to marriages like Kins. When you give before December 31st,
0:51.5	your gift will be doubled. Donate at focus on the family.com slash family or call
0:58.0	800 a family. So the first thing that changed in my marriage was believing the best about
1:07.8	Ashley, meaning the things that he's doing, he's doing for a reason. I don't need
1:11.9	to control him or nag him. So I started complimenting him. I started anytime he did anything,
1:19.8	I would make sure I was admiring and respecting him. And was that like the first year of her?
1:24.6	It pretty much after the first year, that changed everything. Dr. I think so. I think so. Yeah, that changed everything.
1:28.3	Dr. Heather Holliman and her husband Ashley are featured today on this best of 2025
1:33.3	episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daley.
1:36.3	Thanks for being along with us.
1:38.3	I'm John Fuller.
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