FAH in 5 Minutes: Name the Opponent in Your Marriage

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In marriage, we have opponents that war against our intimacy and level of connection. Sometimes it's finances, busyness, an upcoming deployment, or even lack of sleep from a newborn baby. Whatever the opponent, we have to name it in order to get on the same team against it. If not, we run the risk of making our spouse the enemy. And your spouse is not your enemy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Famous at Home in five minutes.
0:04.0	Practical insights for creating a family of connection, celebration, and purpose.
0:10.0	This week, we want you to name your opponent.
0:13.0	So in other words, when it comes to your marriage, especially in a season of coronavirus,
0:18.0	a lot of things have been exposed, and there's a lot that might have been
0:21.5	exposed in your own marriage. So, for example, your opponent might be finances. It could be a lack of
0:28.2	time. It could be that your kids are now schooling from home, you're trying to work from home,
0:33.9	and the chaos of trying to figure out a new rhythm and routine is coming between
0:39.6	you and your spouse.
0:41.3	Whatever it is, we have these opponents in our marriage and sometimes what we do is we fail
0:47.0	to name them.
0:48.7	And when we fail to name them, what can happen is they can become elephants in our marriage they become these topics that we
0:56.8	kind of they rear their head that elephant will kind of make its way into the living room every now
1:02.2	and again and we'll feed it but then because we're afraid of where it might go in the marriage
1:08.1	we're afraid of a massive blow-up or we're afraid of getting hurt.
1:12.9	We don't address the issue and we just continue to stay living at a real, just going through
1:20.0	the motions in our marriage. So what is it for you? What is the thing that often brings up
1:24.9	this passive-aggressive dance maybe in your marriage?
1:28.0	It could be something that's been wounding and hurtful.
1:32.3	It could be something small.
1:33.8	It could be finances.
1:35.8	It could be in-laws.
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