Ep 35 | How to Master the Curiously Complicated Machinery of Marriage
The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Blaze Podcast Network
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change. |
| 0:05.9 | Never change. |
| 0:06.8 | This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome everybody and thank you so much for being part of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin's show. |
| 0:22.4 | You know, life is complicated, and one of the most complicated aspects of life is marriage. |
| 0:31.6 | I think it not an exaggeration were I to say that the operation of marriage is a more complicated enterprise |
| 0:46.3 | than the operation of almost any complicated piece of machinery. |
| 0:58.2 | Now, it's just that marriage is so common. |
| 0:59.9 | We see it all around of us. |
| 1:07.2 | Many of us are in one that we tend to sort of think of it as intuitive as having a birthday. |
| 1:09.8 | It just happens. |
| 1:16.2 | And just as you get older, just as you get wiser, so you get married. |
| 1:27.2 | It's just one of those things. And it's very easy indeed to overlook just how complex it really is. |
| 1:37.4 | Now, the reality is that most people acknowledge that they are happier in a good marriage. |
| 1:43.9 | Married people, particularly in a good marriage, are far happier than single people. |
| 1:51.9 | In general, are there those people who have made a more than the best of a situation and are single, not necessarily through any choice of their own, but are single and |
| 1:57.6 | live fulfilling and wonderful lives, absolutely. |
| 2:03.4 | But I'm thinking in particular, and as you can imagine, I've had many, many years of |
| 2:11.8 | experience in counseling as a synagogue rabbi and in other capacities. |
| 2:18.7 | And it's very easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying and sort of suggesting that trite |
| 2:26.5 | solutions exist for all conditions. |
| 2:29.7 | Obviously, none of that is true. |
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