Forgiving the Spouse Who Hurt You

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

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Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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When you've been hurt by your spouse, it's easy to either hold a grudge or not deal with it at all. Is there hope to move on after your mate has wounded you? John, Erin and Greg describe the power of choosing forgiveness, and how to do it, even when your spouse isn't changing. Featuring Dr. Randy Schroeder.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.2	today. When you've been hurt by your spouse there are a couple of different
0:38.0	responses that are pretty common. One is to pretend like everything's okay. Fine
0:42.6	I'm fine. The other is to bury it and to hold a grudge and me there of those
0:47.9	is healthy because they're not focused on forgiveness and moving forward. I'm
0:52.6	John Fuller with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage team and last
0:57.9	time Dr. Randy Schrader shared some tips for resolving conflict. Let's go ahead
1:02.8	and here now as he speaks with Jim Daley about how to walk in forgiveness after
1:08.0	you've been hurt. You use an analogy of wallpaper about the importance of
1:13.7	apologizing and forgiving. How does that work? These are so catchy. That's why
1:18.7	they do work. If this room and I know there's brick on the wall but let's say
1:22.7	there wasn't a brick. If this room was filled with steam and we wanted to wall
1:26.6	paper to beautify this room we could try to wall paper till Jesus returns. But
1:32.4	the walls will be damp and the wall paper would just keep sliding down. So what
1:36.9	we would need to do is open the door, let the steam out of the room, let the
1:41.2	walls dry and then we can wall paper the room and beautify it. Likewise in a
1:48.0	marriage when a marriage is struggling the heart is filled with the steam of
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