Deal With the Little Irritations
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Small problems that aren't talked about in your marriage can turn into big issues later on, John, Greg and Erin discuss why it's important to talk things out with your spouse whenever there is tension in your relationship. Featuring Dr. Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff.
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | Every tree in a forest started at one time as a very small seed and in the same |
| 0:41.1 | way, a small problem that gets buried under the surface and your marriage can |
| 0:45.1 | grow over time if it's left undelt with. I'm John Fuller here in the studio with |
| 0:50.2 | Greg and Aaron Smalley and the our counselors and they speak at marriage events |
| 0:53.9 | together. They head up the marriage team here at Focus on the Family. A Dr. |
| 0:58.0 | Tim Mulehoff is a professor of communication at Biola University and he's |
| 1:02.5 | written a great book. It's called Defending Your Marriage and he and his wife |
| 1:06.5 | Noreen talked to Jim Daley and me about learning to deal with problems in your |
| 1:11.2 | marriage relationship. In the book you talk about Ken and Maria and you share a |
| 1:15.9 | story about their marriage. He I think was an accountant and she was a little |
| 1:20.5 | more spontaneous I guess. Opposites attract. We get that a lot. Jean and I are |
| 1:26.0 | that way. She's a science major and you know she did well in science. I was more |
| 1:30.7 | marketing but talk about these two and what happened. So this couple are you |
| 1:37.5 | know they're great. He's really a penny-pincher. He's got the graphs. He's a |
| 1:43.8 | saver which is all tremendous qualities. She's a really free spirit and when they |
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