Healthy Expectations for Busy Seasons

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When we get angry at our family, there's typically a deeper reason why. It might even be rooted in unrealistic expectations. Erin, Greg and John discuss how to have healthy expectations for busy seasons, and ways to show your spouse grace when he or she gets upset.

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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	You know, it's pretty common in marriage for one spouse to be a go with the
0:39.2	flow person and the other is a little more perfectionist and sometimes in a
0:44.0	busier season, it's easier for those personalities to clash. We take turns
0:51.2	dating me. Sometimes I'm a go with the flow person. Other times she is. So I
0:57.1	think we alternate depending on kind of who's feeling and need to be the alpha
1:01.0	at the moment. I don't know. This is not going to be a personal session. We'll
1:04.4	move on. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Erin Smalley. And we're going to help
1:08.8	John today. They're professional marriage counselors. They are excellent in
1:13.8	terms of insights, wisdom, biblical perspectives on marriage. And let's go ahead
1:19.1	to a conversation that was recorded with Jim Daley and me in which Greg and Erin
1:23.7	discussed some healthy expectations couples can have, especially when you're in
1:28.3	the middle of being busy raising a family. What are some things, some ideas that
1:34.0	we can change tonight and tomorrow as we move forward? What are just a couple
1:38.5	things we can do that reunites us as a married couple? I think it's so important
1:44.2	to recognize Jim that there's an opportunity to build a stronger attachment
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