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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Happy Couples Think Differently

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Are your thoughts about your spouse positive or negative? Ted Lowe speaks with Jim Daly on why happy couples choose to see the best in their spouses. You'll then hear John and the Smalley's discuss how thinking the best about your mate can help your marriage.

 

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0:00.0

There's a passage in the New Testament book of Philippians chapter 4 and we're reminded

0:11.0

to think on things that are honorable, pure, and lovely, and the list goes on.

0:16.6

How different would your marriage look if you chose to think positively about those things

0:21.1

regarding your spouse? I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron and they lead the focus

0:27.3

marriage team and boy y'all do such a great job. Thank you for the way your team comes in and is thinking about how do we help marriages.

0:35.0

Greg thinking positive thoughts is a choice. It's not an accident, isn't it?

0:40.0

Not at all. I think we do this by like really making a point to express gratitude.

0:46.5

So noticing things, you know, what has Aaron done today? She emptied out our disc washer, even though I could have but I wanted our youngest daughter to do

0:55.9

that but Aaron did that so I'm grateful. Yeah we checked the leaderboard and

0:59.7

Aaron got that one you know but but but gratitude is a way to keep things focused like, like the

1:06.8

verse talks about. Just any sort of positive reminder, maybe it's a photo, you know, do we keep pictures like that at our place

1:16.1

of work or wherever.

1:18.8

When any time Aaron calls, my phone, it pops up as beautiful wife.

1:25.0

I remember you saying something.

1:28.0

And you know in in I don't even remember I did that years and years ago.

1:32.4

I couldn't even tell you why I did that, but I really am so glad because it's a daily

1:38.3

Reminder and of some kind of blushing about her.

1:41.3

Yeah, isn't that my sweet face not enough of a reminder? of some kind of blushing. Yeah.

1:43.0

Isn't that my sweet face not enough of a reminder?

1:45.0

I'm going to put extremely beautiful life now that will pop up.

1:49.0

I love that idea.

1:50.0

This is a small thing.

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