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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Doing Life in the Same Boat

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

If we're honest, we all have annoying habits. In marriage, it's very common for those same habits to get on our spouse's nerves. John and the Smalleys share things they've learned from their own journeys and how you can work through disagreements 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. Anyone who's been married for a while will tell you that trying to

0:46.0

change your spouse is just not a good idea. If something isn't important just

0:51.4

let it go. But there are times when you get so irritated. My wife moves fast and

0:58.2

she changes shoes a lot. And what I've noticed is she often changes shoes and

1:04.8

leaves the old pair right where I want to step. And so there's this collection,

1:10.2

this ongoing collection of shoes in some places. And I find myself sometimes

1:14.8

getting irritated and I kick the shoes and I realize why am I kicking those

1:18.6

shoes. It's just it's not a big deal. Let it go. I'm John Fuller joined by

1:24.1

Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron. They're in charge of our marriage team

1:27.9

here and I won't ask you to for all right Greg I will ask you for example. Why

1:33.9

did I know this was going to happen? So how have you learned to let go of

1:38.4

something that becomes an irritant to you? To kind of like the shoes like your

1:43.2

shoes are for me. You know probably one of the things that Aaron and I will

1:48.2

battle over that drives me crazy is just the the lights. I knew that's what he was

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