Don't Do This in an Argument
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
How you handle conflict in your marriage can help or hurt your relationship. Sometimes, before you get into an argument, it's good to have rules for how you'll handle it. John, Erin and Greg talk about the rules they have for dealing with conflict well. Featuring Pastor D.A. and Elicia Horton.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody around us this summer, I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that there's a lot of folks in their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriage fall apart and that scared us. |
| 0:12.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
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| 0:23.0 | Focus on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
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| 1:12.0 | Happy Thanksgiving from Focus on the Family. |
| 1:15.0 | It is a wonderful time of year for a lot of us, but it also can create a lot of stress in |
| 1:20.7 | marriage. |
| 1:21.7 | The holidays are just difficult at times. It's good to have |
| 1:25.5 | some rules for how you're going to handle conflict when it pops up during the holiday |
| 1:29.7 | season, like no we don't deal with that right now in front of everybody and no we don't |
| 1:35.6 | push it away put in the closet lock the door and never come back to it we have to have |
| 1:39.1 | some happy medium there about the things that come up. I personally have found, and my wife |
| 1:45.2 | Dina has as well, that a journal is a good way to keep track of kind of what I'm |
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