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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Engaging Conflict in a Productive Way, Part 2

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Don't let negative emotions expressed in the heat of the moment tear your marriage apart. Featuring Ron and Deb DeArmond.

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0:00.0

After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale.

0:03.5

He wanted something better for him and his wife.

0:06.5

Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective

0:16.5

and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage.

0:21.0

I'm Jim Daly.

0:22.0

Together we can give families hope.

0:24.4

Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled.

0:30.0

Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast.

0:35.0

You can find more relationship insights at focus on the family

0:39.0

dot com slash marriage podcast.

0:42.0

When you have kids you're introducing conflict into your marriage and you don't

0:47.0

want to drag them into it but you also know that they are watching they know

0:51.0

something is going on. They can read the situation. This is an opportunity to show them how to handle an argument in a healthy way.

1:00.0

I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and I think the hardest time Greg is when we're having

1:07.2

An argument in the car. Oh yeah, it's like I'd like to just there's no getting away No, I'd like to just there's no getting away.

1:13.9

No I'd like to kind of leave this.

1:15.2

I want to model this for the kids but it doesn't feel like it's good while we're doing 80.

1:21.4

What can happen?

1:26.0

You probably want to reduce your speed, first and foremost. Well, and reduce the emotions, as you were saying last time.

1:29.0

I mean, it's, it just...

1:31.0

I think everybody gets stressed out, and I think for younger kids their natural

1:35.4

tendency is to want to intervene and referee to bring you guys together.

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