Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours?

That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called

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If you ever had one of those moments where something snaps and your spouse is either,

you know, armed the hilton just really mad or walks out or makes some very clear indication

you have disappointed me or you've hurt me. I'm John Fuller and we're going to be talking about those

nuances and how to manage those on today's episode. We've got Greg and Aaron Smalley in the studio and

let's listen now to focus on the family president, Jim Daly. He and his wife, Gene, we're in the

studio, Greg, with you and Aaron, and you all had a great conversation about

unmet expectations. I don't know that there was as much drama as I opened with, but let's listen

in about how to deal with feeling offended. Okay, well, it's only fair that I get to ask you, Aaron,

about how you and Greg learned to deal with unmet expectations in your marriage. We all have

them, but we don't necessarily tell our spouse. So how have you guys worked through your different

expectations? We've had lots of them. Right. Great practice opportunities. We all come into marriage based on what we experienced growing up from our family of origin with those expectations.

It's going to go like that.

But often we don't talk about it.

We don't communicate about it.

So then they're unrealistic expectations.

I even think about, I don't think you thought of this, but mowing the lawn. So I expected, because my

dad mowed the lawn, I thought Greg would mow the lawn. And it was this battle that I would,

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