Having Fun With Your Differences
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It's common for spouses with completely different personalities to find each other. The early bird marries a night owl, and an extrovert marries an introvert, With such contrasts, it's easy to get annoyed with your spouse. But what if there was a way to have fun with your differences? John and the Smalleys give some helpful tips for couples who can't see past their opinions.
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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. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage |
| 0:41.1 | podcast. You know at times it can be easy to let a difference between you and your |
| 0:46.4 | spouse get on your nerves. It takes a mature couple to look past the ways that |
| 0:52.1 | you're different and not tear each other down. It can be something as simple as |
| 0:56.9 | the way she brushes her teeth. This is a real-life example. I thought it was |
| 1:02.3 | cute when I met Dean in the way she brushed her teeth. Now it irritates me but I |
| 1:05.6 | got to get over that and just remember how cute it was back in the early days |
| 1:08.7 | and then she's got to give me some some room to make a mess in the kitchen |
| 1:13.1 | every day and I will clean it up but she wants me to clean up right away and |
| 1:19.0 | start like, well I'd like to eat my food while it's hot. So these are simple |
| 1:22.7 | things and we've worked through those and we continue to have little things to |
| 1:27.1 | work through all the time. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and |
| 1:31.7 | I wonder Aaron if there's something that you'd like to just you know publicly |
| 1:35.8 | state that you and Greg have worked through something he does or did that got on |
| 1:40.0 | your nerves. It's funny because he wrote some things down here and I'm laughing |
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