Building True Oneness In Marriage, Part 1
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Realizing the difference between things you need and things you want in your marriage can make a huge difference. Featuring Dr. Larry Crabb.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.9 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | You can find more relationship insights at Focus on thefamily.com |
| 0:39.9 | slash marriage podcast. Have you ever felt that you're just not getting what you want out of your |
| 0:45.8 | marriage? Or maybe you and your spouse just don't have the same expectations, but you can't |
| 0:51.6 | really talk about those? I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley, and today we're talking about feeling disconnected from your spouse. And Greg, it actually happened just like yesterday. My wife and I were talking, and I said kind of like ABC, and she heard L-M-N, and she said that back to me and it's like like, no, ABC, L-M-N, A-B-C, L-M-N. |
| 1:15.4 | And we kind of escalated. |
| 1:17.8 | Yeah, because that never happens. |
| 1:19.5 | I had to say, can we start over? |
| 1:21.9 | Because, like, this is not working. |
| 1:24.1 | And it seems like most couples have those moments. |
| 1:27.1 | We do. Either we totally misunderstand |
| 1:28.9 | each other, don't get it, misperceive something, or we generally feel that we are very disconnected |
| 1:36.3 | just the other day, Aaron, same thing. She just, she literally used the words, I feel like we're |
| 1:40.3 | married roommates. Just what I wanted to hear. And yeah, I resisted and defended and, |
| 1:47.1 | you know, explain why that couldn't possibly be true. But at the end of the day, I understood what |
| 1:52.4 | she was saying is that for her, it was that I wasn't really pursuing her inner life. I wasn't |
| 1:58.7 | asking how she felt and how she doing. And so I took that |
| 2:03.3 | away of going, man, I need to make sure that I keep pursuing that part. Well, I'm glad that we're |
| 2:08.2 | going to be able to hear from Dr. Larry Krabb because he is one of the best when it comes to |
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