Eliminating Distractions, Finding Intimacy
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Let's be honest, sometimes, it's easy to get distracted when your spouse is trying to tell you something. John talks with Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley about why it's important for couples to eliminate distractions and connect on a spiritual level.
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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. |
| 0:35.4 | When I'm at home I try really hard to listen to my wife Dan but there are so |
| 0:39.8 | many distractions and I've got my agenda but there are moments where I set |
| 0:44.8 | aside the distractions happened just this morning. We were having coffee and |
| 0:49.0 | reading and I started telling her something and then I shared another story or |
| 0:53.0 | something and I finally realized I was talking on and on and I said I'm sorry I'm |
| 0:57.9 | babbling and she said no I love it when you babble. I wasn't sure if I should |
| 1:01.6 | take that as a compliment or not but we're glad you've tuned in because |
| 1:05.2 | distractions are going to keep you and your spouse apart and we want to help |
| 1:08.4 | you find ways to better connect with your spouse. I'm John Fuller along with |
| 1:13.9 | Erin Smolley. Her husband Greg is not in the studio today. We're going to hear |
| 1:17.8 | a clip now featuring Greg and Erin. Jim Daley and I talked with them about how to |
| 1:22.8 | keep the distractions at bay so you can dial in to your spouse. |
| 1:26.6 | Distractions you mentioned in the book come into play in all this. What are some |
| 1:30.8 | of those sacred moments you want to keep distractions from seeping into and how |
| 1:36.2 | do we do it? It's easy to get distracted in our culture today because we're |
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