Characteristics of a Great Marriage

MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

XO Marriage

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Even in a great marriage, a husband and wife can end up hurting each other. What happens next can either strengthen the marriage or steer it toward divorce. Jimmy Evans reveals the value of redemptive love and the five basic choices a spouse has when something goes wrong. Only one of these choices truly works. ------ For all links mentioned in the episode & more XO content, visit: https://linktr.ee/marriagetoday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jimmy Evans, co-host of the Marriage Today podcast.
0:05.4	Today we have a great teaching for you that I pray grows your marriage and blesses you
0:09.5	as you seek to center your marriage on Christ.
0:12.4	Be sure to subscribe to this podcast channel to be notified of every new show.
0:16.7	God bless you.
0:21.2	Marriage is, we still say things from time to time that hurt each other.
0:24.5	We do things that, you know, we shouldn't do.
0:26.5	So how are you going to respond?
0:27.6	This is the question.
0:29.0	When your spouse does something that hurts you and you don't like, how are you going
0:33.7	to respond?
0:34.7	Let me give you the first choice.
0:36.3	Righteously responding to our spouse in an honest, loving and timely manner.
0:40.3	In other words, your spouse does something that you don't like and you walk up to him
0:43.9	right just recently and say, honey, can I talk to you for just a minute?
0:47.0	I love you.
0:48.0	I think you're great.
0:49.0	We're on the same team.
0:50.7	That bothered me when you said that.
0:52.7	The second is receive the hurt and frustration and hide our true feelings.
0:56.8	This is where passive-aggressive behavior comes in.
0:59.6	In other words, you hurt me.
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