Contrasts in Communication
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In marriage, it's very common for you and your spouse to have opposite communication styles. As our differences become more evident, it's easy for us to misunderstand each other. John and the Smalleys provide some helpful ideas for communicating verbally and nonverbally with your spouse.
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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 |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage |
| 0:41.1 | podcast. I've talked on this podcast before about how my wife is more verbose |
| 0:47.8 | than me. She talks more than I do. I guess I get my words out here in the |
| 0:51.5 | studio and I go home and I'm just quiet. But after years of marriage that's |
| 0:55.6 | still the case. I'm thinking of some broadcast guests that we had some time ago |
| 1:00.2 | Bill and Pam Ferrell and they talked about men are like waffles and women are |
| 1:05.9 | like spaghetti and there are times when I just lose the the train of thought because |
| 1:10.9 | Deena starts at one point and she goes here and it's all connected and makes |
| 1:14.7 | perfect sense in her head. She gets frustrated because I can't follow that and |
| 1:19.3 | it's sort of like slow down. I'm just dumb old John over here. I need to catch up |
| 1:25.0 | with all the words in your head. Well I am John Fuller along with my friends |
| 1:30.4 | Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron. They run the focus marriage department here |
| 1:35.4 | and we're returning to a conversation Greg and Aaron had with Jim Daley about how |
| 1:40.2 | husbands and wives communicate differently. It generally is a fact. Let's go |
| 1:45.7 | ahead and listen in. Men and women this is a generalization I get that and |
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