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Contradicting your husband in public.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you should and sometimes you shouldn't. It seems to me that, if we are honest with ourselves about our motives and paying careful attention to the situation, we will be able to tell easily if it's worth correcting our spouse in public. Generally, it's probably best to err on the side of not saying anything or waiting for a private moment to share.

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0:00.0

And that is the problem in Christian marriages when you think you're using the Bible and you're trying to have a Christian marriage

0:06.2

But you're applying it wrong. Well, we'll give one for the husbands here. My wife will not respect me

0:11.9

She counters me in front of other people. Honestly, this is the one thing that drives me nuts

0:17.7

We're with a bunch of husbands and wives and the husband will say last Tuesday

0:22.4

It should be like no it was one day

0:24.7

You know we went on vacation last June nope it was May and and this is

0:30.0

Constant and I'm like would you would you stop like but that's and it feels very disrespectful to a husband

0:36.4

And I get that so what should a wife respecting her husband look like

0:43.5

Well, I mean it ideally it should look like she respects you

0:47.2

Right like it's but here's the thing I discovered in my own marriage is that I have like a different measure of respect than my wife did

0:53.1

And so she would do things that are first early years of marriage that I was like I felt like that was disrespectful and she was like

0:59.2

Huh

1:02.0

Like there was there wasn't in her heart at all

1:04.2

Right, and so I learned to get thicker skin

1:07.9

She learned to get thinner skin

1:09.9

And we kind of balanced out a little bit so that she became more sensitive to potentially disrespecting me and I became

1:15.8

More gracious and understanding and not

1:19.4

An insecure punk

1:21.4

Because that's absolutely the way I'm wired to be I'm more inclined to be that way. I just

1:27.2

Somehow getting married just like pulls out every insecurity I have and puts it right there in front of

1:33.4

The marriage it's kind of weird and I think that that might be common for for couples

1:37.4

You get married all of a sudden all your insecurities and fears and stuff like that and it just creates a lot of tension in the marriage

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