[Best of Part 3] The Elephant in Your Marriage

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We hope you've been enjoying our "Best of" series! Do you have an annoyance in your marriage that seems to rear its ugly head every now and again? That one issue that seems to block you and your spouse from being on the same team. In-laws. Finances. How you parent your kids. Where you spend the holidays. We all seem to have that one elephant. You know it's there, but most of the time it's hibernating in the cold, dark, corner of the basement, out of sight. Yet, every now and again, you feel the elephant coming up the stairs. Your reaction might be to pretend he's not coming. Or it might be that you see him walk into your living room so you obviously have to talk about him. So you do. You argue about him. You try to find a way to get him back into your basement, out of sight, but you can't agree on how to do that.

In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about their own elephant. They also give practical ways to finally address that one issue in your marriage and why talking about it actually takes away its power. For the sake of your marital intimacy, talk about the elephant.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:06.0	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:14.0	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:16.0	We hope that you're having a wonderful holiday season.
0:19.0	You had a great Christmas and a wonderful start to your new year here.
0:24.8	2021. Who's grateful that 2020 is over? I know I am in some ways and in other ways I'm like, man, there was so much good that came out of 2020 that I think we want to take from.
0:38.7	And, you know, if you haven't listened to the last couple weeks, we're in the middle of a
0:42.2	of a writing season and a best of series because we're in that writing season.
0:47.8	So, Christy and I are writing a book and we're super grateful about that opportunity.
0:52.7	And we just ask for your prayers in that process.
0:55.6	This is something that we are really putting our heart and mind and soul and will into in a big
1:01.2	way and just covet your prayers. And so today we have an episode that was one of the most
1:07.3	talked about, reviewed, downloaded of the season, and that's addressing
1:12.6	the elephant in your marriage. And we talk a lot about this when we go and we speak to other
1:17.1	people in groups and events and that type of thing. But I think this strikes a nerve because
1:22.5	I think we all have elephants in our marriage. Just these topics that we dance around. We don't really know how
1:29.1	to talk about them. And they get bigger and bigger and bigger over time. And we just need to address
1:34.0	them. We need to bring them out into the light. And that's what this episode is all about.
1:43.5	So we got into a massive argument the last night of our honeymoon.
1:46.8	I mean, it was one of the worst we've ever had.
1:51.3	I still say it was the worst we've ever had.
1:54.3	Christy's in tears.
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