Gentleness for the Conflict

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

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Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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What you say in the middle of a conflict with your spouse can help resolve the tension or make things worse. Greg and Erin talk with John about how they've learned to get better at handling conflict in their relationship. 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
0:28.3	today.
0:35.8	When you and your mate are in the middle of an argument, how you say things and how
0:40.5	you, you know, kind of hold yourself and present yourself can either help or
0:44.6	resolve the conflict or it might lead to a shouting match. I mean, I there have
0:48.8	been times when we have each been in the middle of a conflict so pointed with
0:55.2	our words. I might say that's so much like your dad or she might say the same
0:59.7	thing to me and it's like that's the wrong thing to bring up right now. So boy,
1:04.4	pause. Try to show up and not point fingers. Try to use words in a productive
1:11.3	way. These are lessons that we are continuing to learn after 37 plus years of
1:16.2	marriage. Well, I'm John Fuller. I'm in need of help and that's why we have Dr.
1:20.8	Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron here. This is a John counseling session because
1:26.1	the Smollies they've read about and they've studied about conflict resolution.
1:30.4	They never have any arguments and so they can help me better understand what to
1:34.8	do next time we have a little fight in the Fuller household, right?
1:38.0	Wrong. We're not that good. Your experts on this. Are you
1:43.9	experiential experts or just educationally? We just read about complex. We've
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