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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Having Fun With Your Opposite Personalities

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You married someone who's very different from you! It's part of God's design. While your differences can be a lot of fun, they can also create a lot of tension. John talks to Erin about ways that a couple can have fun with their differences. Featuring Mrs. Melanie Shankle.

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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.

0:36.0

We've all heard the phrase opposites attract and it's absolutely true for a lot of

0:41.4

couples, maybe most couples. Certainly as the years have clicked off for

0:46.8

dinner in me, my wife, we've seen that we really are opposite on some things. I

0:52.4

mean, she just tears into the kitchen and leaves all the cupboards open and and

0:56.6

she's a working woman in the kitchen and I am so methodical and I put things

1:01.5

away as I use them and she is a total opposite approach. Now is one right and

1:06.4

the other wrong? No, but I was drawn to her creative energy and that that

1:13.4

approach to life that all in approached the dinner had and I'm still attracted

1:19.6

to it. I just have to remember every now and then that's what drew me to her. I'm

1:23.5

John Fuller joined by my colleague Aaron Smolley. Normally her husband, Dr. Greg

1:28.4

Smolley, would be in here with us. He's out of the office today. Aaron Greg's

1:33.2

not here so you can say whatever you want. What was one or what were a couple of

1:38.7

things that attracted you to Greg early on in your relationship? Yeah, and this

1:43.8

will shock you, but his sense of humor and brought so much fun. We had so much

1:50.8

fun between just going to the mall or we would go to the park. Going to the

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