Communicating with Your Spouse About Sibling Rivalries
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
If two of your kids aren't getting along, it can cause a lot of stress in your marriage. John, Erin and Greg discuss times when their kids haven't gotten along, and offer hope to couples who are in blended families. Featuring Dr. Gary Chapman and Mr. Ron Deal.
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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. |
| 0:35.8 | Sometimes when the kids aren't getting along, there's some impact on how you and |
| 0:40.0 | your spouse communicate with each other. Gully, I remember when we had four, |
| 0:44.5 | five, six kids in the house. And if some of them were fighting, I would come |
| 0:49.1 | unhinged. I need calm. And so my dealing with that is not calm. It's I get |
| 0:55.4 | triggered. I get angry. I start trying to take control in my voice escalates. |
| 0:59.1 | And that tends to trigger Dina. And she does the same thing back. And then |
| 1:03.2 | we're in the cycle of, I don't know, yeah. And I think at some point the kids |
| 1:07.6 | just want her off because like our job here is done. We can go on and wait |
| 1:11.7 | until another time to create more chaos. Well, I'm John Fuller along with |
| 1:15.9 | Greg and Erin Smalley. We're just gonna breathe right now. A little emotional |
| 1:21.2 | second one. It's been years. That has happened, of course. So Greg, what are |
| 1:26.1 | some of the ways that you can relate or that you've worked through those kinds |
| 1:29.7 | of scenarios in your relationship with Erin? I heard someone once say that |
| 1:34.0 | I've seen the enemy of marriage in their little and to your |
| 1:39.0 | point. And they're definitely can't be big. Our at one time are two oldest |
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