Choosing Love, Even When You Don't Feel It
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
As you get to know your spouse, you learn so many things about him or her. While learning new things can be funny, some situations can lead to tension. John, Erin and Greg discuss why loving your spouse is still a decision, even if you don't feel like doing it. Featuring Mrs. Melanie Shankle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.2 | When you were dating, you're now spouse. It might have been easy to think I know |
| 0:40.4 | so much about him or her, but then you got married and you probably realized |
| 0:45.1 | when I didn't know that about you, most of us as married couples have been |
| 0:50.6 | there before. So if you're still learning things about your mate, welcome to the |
| 0:54.5 | company. We're so glad you've tuned in. I'm John Fuller joined by Greg and |
| 0:58.6 | Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage department. And Melanie Shankl has |
| 1:02.3 | written a really terrific book about getting along with your spouse, assuming |
| 1:06.5 | they're different than you. The book is called The Antelope in the living room |
| 1:11.4 | and here's Melanie talking with Jim Daley about a pretty funny story from her |
| 1:15.7 | honeymoon. Hey, when you talk about that realization that maybe we're different, |
| 1:20.3 | I think you have a story in your book on your honeymoon where that |
| 1:24.3 | difference came out. You thought it would be what? And then what did Perry |
| 1:27.9 | expect out of your honeymoon? Well, there are a whole lot of things, but I will |
| 1:31.4 | tell you that the biggest, what stood out to me was when we got on the plane, |
| 1:35.5 | you know, we were going to the Bahamas and we were going to be at a resort for |
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