Finding Real Happiness in Your Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Your spouse may be trying to do a good a job, but he or she can only do so much. What do you do when your spouse isn't meeting your expectations? John, Greg and Erin talk about letting go of unrealistic expectations and what it means to find true happiness, even when you're facing conflict. Featuring Leslie Vernick.
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| 0:00.0 | After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next. |
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| 0:19.5 | that they suggested. |
| 0:22.3 | They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that |
| 0:27.3 | so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom. |
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| 0:58.7 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | You know expecting your spouse to meet all of your needs is kind of like asking them to work a full-time job on top of an already busy life. |
| 1:20.0 | Hey, would you please just meet all of my needs? I mean, it's going to be impossible. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm John Fuller joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley and the Smalleys have written a number of marriage books. |
| 1:30.0 | They speak at conferences around the country, they counsel couples, and Greg, be honest, how have you learned to let go of unrealistic expectations in your relationship? |
| 1:41.8 | Through a whole lot of pain and disappointment. |
| 1:44.0 | So that is definitely something that I've learned over the 20, almost 29 years of marriage |
| 1:52.0 | that Aaron is not responsible to meet my needs. |
| 1:57.0 | That that's God's job between me and God that's where my true source of fulfillment the moment that that I perceive that it's |
| 2:06.6 | Aaron's job to make me feel a certain way I know early on in our marriage I walked a big wound, an emotional wound into our marriage. I was not even |
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