Engaging Conflict in a Productive Way, Part 5
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A small misunderstanding can trigger a big argument with your spouse. However, conflict can actually be good for your relationship, if you learn to handle it well. John and Greg share how they've learned to deal with conflict in their own marriages.
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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. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Healthy communication is to a marriage. healthy communication is to a marriage what a strong foundation is to a house. |
| 0:48.0 | Without that strength underlying it, your relationship won't be able to withstand the storms of conflict. I'm John Fuller, |
| 0:56.4 | along with Dr. Greg Smalley and Greg. We have fights with our spouse and I don't know why it is, but so many of our fights are over small things. I take some |
| 1:07.4 | comfort in that knowing it's not the big things, the ongoing things, it's the |
| 1:11.0 | little things. Why is that? Yeah, like little things like |
| 1:14.2 | misunderstanding. I remember hearing one time that listen to this. |
| 1:18.2 | 70% of all communication is miscommunication. |
| 1:24.0 | I can believe that. |
| 1:26.0 | And yet in our relationships in our marriage we function like I simply said something you should get it. |
| 1:34.2 | Instead we should be operating with the principle |
| 1:38.4 | that they didn't get it. |
| 1:39.6 | More than likely that whatever I say, |
| 1:42.3 | you're going to misunderstand that. That's how we should operate in our marriage. |
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