Drawing Closer to God and Each Other, Part 5
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Your spouse may be amazing, but he or she still falls short from time to time. John, Greg and Erin share some practical ways to encourage your spouse, even when he or she disappoints you.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
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| 0:42.0 | Your spouse is of course amazing, but expecting him or her to complete you is like asking them to, I don't know, carry 16 tons. |
| 0:52.0 | It's just too heavy for them to handle. I'm John Fuller here with |
| 0:56.3 | Greg and Aaron Smalley and they run our marriage department that focus on the family and |
| 1:00.6 | Greg or Aaron what are some of the dangers when we put unrealistic expectations on our spouse? |
| 1:05.6 | Well it's when Johnny's expectations are unknown so it's something that in our own mind seems reasonable it's an expectation that we have |
| 1:15.8 | that really turns into a demand that our spouse should be doing this and when that goes unfulfilled because most of the time they don't even know that this is an expectation |
| 1:27.2 | well obviously then we become unhappy we become frustrated |
| 1:31.6 | ultimately we become resentful and that's not become |
| 1:33.2 | Resentful and that's not completion isn't no as a matter fact just a few like an hour ago here and |
| 1:39.5 | said now you got the mail right because we returned from a trip. I was supposed to go in and get the mail right because we returned from a trip I was supposed to go in and get the mail |
| 1:44.6 | from the post office forgot so in her we didn't talk about it this morning so in her |
| 1:50.6 | mind it was clear it was a reasonable expectation in my mind I didn't had no idea I was supposed to do this |
| 1:56.4 | So it would have been very easy for Aaron to get very frustrated |
| 2:01.0 | Because I didn't do something that actually that I didn't realize I was supposed to do. |
| 2:06.0 | That's how they work because we don't talk about this stuff. |
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