Healthy Adjustments to Your Expectations

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

All of us have expectations for what we thought marriage would be like. Yet, at some point, things won't go according to plan, and how you respond will make a big difference in those situations. John, Greg and Erin discuss what it looks like for couples to have healthy expectations for each other. Featuring Dr. Randy Schroeder.

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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.
0:35.9	All of us have moments where we think something is going to happen a certain way
0:39.8	in our marriage, but it doesn't and then we end up disappointed. I mean it
0:43.8	certainly has happened to me and to my wife Dina, probably her more than me
0:48.0	in fact, but today we'll be discussing how some small adjustments in our
0:52.2	expectations can improve the relationship. I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Greg
0:57.0	Smolley and his wife Aaron. They lead our marriage team and let's go ahead
1:01.8	and kick off with the conversation that Jim Daley had with Dr. Randy Schrader.
1:05.7	Randy is a professional counselor and explains a simple but important lesson
1:10.4	he's learned from counseling other couples. Randy, welcome back to Focus on
1:14.2	the Family. Jim and John it's great to be with you again. I really appreciate
1:18.8	you and focus on the family for promoting biblical values and supporting
1:22.9	marriages and parents and families. Just thank you so very much for having me
1:26.7	again. Well it's a treat actually and I was telling the team as we were getting
1:29.9	ready for the program. You have a really good gift which is to bring everyday
1:35.9	metaphors into the marriage situation. So you make it rather easy I think to
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