Building True Oneness in Marriage, Part 8
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A healthy marriage requires you to appreciate your spouse's differences. John and Greg discuss how to work on your marriage, even when it feels like you have nothing in common.
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| 0:00.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.4 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey this is John Fuller joined by Dr. Greg |
| 0:45.0 | it's pretty fascinating how God can bring |
| 0:49.0 | to entirely different personalities together. |
| 0:52.0 | It's sort of like he's saying hey angels watch this I'm going to put Greg and Aaron together and see what happens I mean what is it with that? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah he's got a wonderful sense of humor because definitely in our case and for many others opposites do attract. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm raising my hand. I did not know how opposite I was of Dina until we got married. |
| 1:10.8 | But that's the beautiful part of marriage, just the way that |
| 1:14.1 | Aaron and I are so different. You hear people talk about irreconcilable differences. |
| 1:18.6 | No, I don't buy into that at all. Differences are never the problem. Is learning how do we manage |
| 1:24.9 | those differences that makes the big difference. Well Dean is extrovert |
| 1:28.9 | nature her risk-taking. Those were appealing qualities to me until after we got married and she'd be like, |
| 1:35.5 | let's go down this road and see where it goes. And it's like, I want the map, I want to know where it goes. |
| 1:39.8 | I don't want to just, I have learned to embrace that. And so I do take by roads without maps and I don't worry about it. |
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