Dealing With the Root of Marriage Problems
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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John, Greg and Erin discuss how letting go of selfishness makes a big difference for when you face conflict as a couple.
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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. So you and your spouse first fell in love and you couldn't help say |
| 0:46.0 | things like oh she's so wonderful or he's terrific he's a dream during that |
| 0:51.4 | season it was probably hard to imagine how that same person could do |
| 0:55.9 | something that would irritate you just you know months later. I'm John Fuller |
| 1:01.2 | along with Greg and Erin Smolley they run our marriage department here at |
| 1:04.8 | the ministry and Erin why do you think couples overlook those faults when |
| 1:10.2 | they're dating which will become glaring agitations once they get married. |
| 1:15.6 | You know the term blinded by love is so true that we see our future spouse |
| 1:22.2 | through this particular lens that is very positive and rosy and happy and you |
| 1:29.4 | know they could do no wrong and the truth is like you're saying is that you |
| 1:34.4 | know for us it wasn't even months into marriage it was days really I didn't |
| 1:43.9 | know you did that or really and I love talking to to couples who are engaged |
| 1:50.2 | because it is so present like it is it's almost impossible for them to see the |
| 1:55.9 | reality of what's to come and it's not I hate saying that because of course it |
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