Giving and Receiving Comfort
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A comforting spouse can be a great gift as you're going through a hard season. When you receive comfort from him or her, it's also important to give it back. John, Greg and Erin discuss some ways they've learned to console their spouse during difficult times. Featuring Milan and Kay Yerkovich.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction and she feared the worst. |
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| 1:12.0 | Well, when life feels overwhelming, having a comforting spouse to lean on is a wonderful gift. |
| 1:19.5 | It's a gift from the Lord. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm John Fuller along with my friends and focus colleagues Dr. |
| 1:24.8 | Greg and Aaron Smalley and we're returning now to a conversation that Jim |
| 1:29.5 | Daly and I had with Mylan and Kay Yurkevich. They speak about love styles and have some terrific |
| 1:35.5 | advice about supporting your spouse during hard moments. |
| 1:39.3 | Let's go to something you call the comfort cycle. What is the comfort cycle? What are the elements of it? |
| 1:46.6 | There's four points, awareness, and then to engage, and then to find out more, listen and find out more, and then to resolve. |
| 1:55.0 | Awareness is just what Mylan was talking about. |
| 1:58.0 | What is your spouse's stress response? |
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