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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Getting Your Spouse to Listen

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Misunderstandings are part of marriage sometimes. How you respond to a misunderstanding can lead to weeks of tension or better conflict resolution with your spouse. Greg and Erin talk with John about how they've worked through tension in their own relationship. Featuring Dr. David Clarke.

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0:00.0

Everybody around us this summer, I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that there's a lot of folks in their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriage fall apart and that scared us.

0:12.0

After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale.

0:15.0

He wanted something better for he and his wife.

0:18.0

That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day.

0:23.0

Focus on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage.

0:38.0

I'm Jim Daly. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better.

0:43.7

Working together, we can give families hope.

0:46.7

Will you join our marriage building team?

0:48.9

Please call 800 the letter A and the word family, or you can donate at focus on the family

0:54.3

dot com slash gift and when you do your gift will be doubled.

0:59.2

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.

1:12.1

It's a stereotype but I think it's a pretty slash marriage Now Aaron Smalley I'm sure you've never said that to Greg right?

1:23.2

Oh never never I've never said that and I've never heard another woman say that.

1:27.6

Yeah not just listen to me listen to every word I just said oh I, I can get exhausted. My wife likes to think and process aloud and sometimes I just have to say

1:37.6

You'll lost me, hon. I'm sorry I'm trying.

1:41.0

Could we just sit here in silence and just hold each other?

1:44.4

Yes.

1:45.4

Oh, you too?

1:46.4

I'm not holding you.

1:47.4

Oh, yeah.

1:49.2

Let's move on to shall we to the planned conversation that we had with Dr David Clark, Jim Daly and I sat down with

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