Don’t Isolate Your Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It's easy for many people to feel isolated in their marriages today. John and the Smalley's discuss factors that can lead to feeling disconnected in your relationship. You'll also hear Jim Daly and Gary Thomas address why isolation is so bad for your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Just this morning, I saw an article that said that cell phones are an enemy to your marriage. |
| 0:11.3 | It felt a little dramatic, but we're going to talk about technology and your relationships. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron. |
| 0:19.8 | They lead the Focus Marriage department. |
| 0:22.2 | The technology seems to isolate us, Greg. |
| 0:24.8 | It felt like, oh, it's going to unite us. |
| 0:27.5 | But here we are, and my wife and I do this. |
| 0:30.8 | It's sort of like, we're tired. |
| 0:32.4 | She gets her iPad, I get my phone. |
| 0:34.4 | We don't talk. |
| 0:35.7 | There's a problem. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.7 | And it can, and isolation, certainly, as human beings is not what God desires. |
| 0:43.2 | You made us so relational, desires us to be in support and community. |
| 0:48.2 | Are we isolated, by the way, if we're sitting on the sofa next to each other, but we're |
| 0:51.4 | both on our devices? |
| 0:53.0 | Yes. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay. |
| 0:55.0 | For that, for that amount of time, let's just go with yes. |
| 0:57.5 | Well, that amount of time, I didn't say for hours, but footsees or anything. |
| 1:02.1 | And of course, you would say that because in our marriage, I'm the one that's usually |
| 1:06.0 | on the device, and he is not. |
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