Dealing with Emotional Disconnection in Marriage
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It’s not uncommon for men to struggle with emotional intimacy in marriage and other relationships. Jim Turner, a former pastor, was one of those men, until his wife left him, and a friend challenged him to take a closer look at himself. He thought love was all about doing things, checking off the right boxes. After allowing godly men - and his children - to speak into his life, Jim experienced a dramatic transformation. Jim is remarried and has learned to experience life more fully and be relational in all his connections. Through this conversation, men and women will find help and encouragement in their marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | You have to intentionally find guys that will have intentional conversations |
| 0:05.2 | that aren't necessarily that comfortable, but if you find the right guys and you |
| 0:08.8 | ask the Lord for these guys, but if you find the right guys, they can go there with you. |
| 0:12.0 | And they have there with you. |
| 0:13.1 | And they have to teach you. |
| 0:15.0 | I had to be taught. |
| 0:16.9 | It didn't just come to me. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm still learning. |
| 0:20.2 | Well, Jim Turner thinks it's important for men |
| 0:22.2 | to connect emotionally with others in relationship, |
| 0:25.2 | and God has designed us for a relationship, but we live in a fallen world and often that connectedness doesn't happen. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to focus on the family with Jim |
| 0:33.8 | Daly I'm John Fuller. Here's a billboard. Women are going to laugh when I say |
| 0:37.9 | this. Many men are not emotionally connected. I know you're laughing about that right now saying, oh, you just caught up with that? |
| 0:45.7 | News Flash, yeah. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm in it. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm one of them. |
| 0:49.1 | And this is a point of conversation that Jean and I will have at times that she doesn't feel I'm |
| 0:55.8 | emotionally connected to which I'm looking at her like a deer in the headlights. |
| 1:00.5 | What I don't even know what you're talking about. |
| 1:02.6 | Didn't we have dinner last night together? |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, that fits the criteria. |
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