Helpful Ways to Communicate with Your Wife
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Communicating with your spouse can sometimes feel like trying to understand a new language. But by listening to each other, your relationship can get stronger. John talks with Greg and Erin Smalley about why it's important for a husband to listen to his wife. Featuring Dr. David Clarke.
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| 1:12.0 | My wife and I are so different and sometimes is we're trying to communicate and we've really taken up this concept and we use it now as code two languages. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm speaking Russia and you're speaking Chinese, it's not working and so we want to |
| 1:29.2 | explore communication styles today. I'm John Filler along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife |
| 1:35.5 | Aaron authors speakers focus colleagues and friends and Aaron I'll ask you how |
| 1:42.3 | quickly in marriage did you realize, you know what, we're kind of speaking a couple of different languages here. |
| 1:48.0 | It's not working. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, it didn't take long. I would say within the first 24 hours on our honeymoon |
| 1:54.0 | that we realized we spoke very different languages |
| 1:58.0 | when we got engaged |
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