Don't Run From the Problem

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As problems come up in your relationship, it's essential to deal with them. But the big question is, how? John, Erin and Greg explain why you shouldn't run from marriage issues, and discuss how praying together helps build a lasting foundation for your relationship.

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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
0:35.8	can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage
0:41.3	podcast. When a problem comes up it's pretty easy for me as the husband to
0:46.2	shut down. Go Simon. I've told data silences safety. I'm John Foller along with
0:52.4	my friends and focus colleagues, Greg and Aaron Smolley and Aaron you do a lot
0:55.9	of marriage counseling. How typical is my behavior, my pattern where I go to if
1:01.1	I'm not careful because it's just easy to be distant and say later. Very common
1:07.2	very common and the research shows that men typically are the withdrawers or the
1:13.4	ones that isolate off. I would say that it could be even as high as 80 to 85% of
1:18.2	the time they are the withdrawers. Now not always but it is very common and not
1:23.5	only common in the couples I see but common in my own marriage and just had a
1:29.2	recent experience sitting right next to you. Yeah just last week had a recent
1:32.6	experience of it was early in the morning we were both getting ready to run out
1:36.4	the door and I brought up something I just said hey I've got something that I'd
1:40.0	like to address. You know we can address it later on but I go to her and do
1:45.4	giving me a preview. Yeah let me know so I can get ready. Right. And suddenly five
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