Helping Your Marriage Through Little Changes
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It's fair to say you and your spouse are not the same person. When your differences become more evident, it's easy to get into arguments over things like money, the kids, or having company over for dinner. John and the Smalleys give some helpful ideas for working through differences with your spouse.
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| 0:00.0 | When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg Panicked, but a focus on the |
| 0:05.7 | family counselor put everything into perspective. |
| 0:09.5 | He said, the first thing you need to realize of kids who are blessing, they're all of the |
| 0:14.1 | blessing, that they're just from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value relationships |
| 0:19.6 | not stuff. |
| 0:20.6 | Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy thriving |
| 0:25.2 | family of seven children. |
| 0:27.8 | We have been really influenced by the culture, and by just being that kind of a little negativity |
| 0:33.8 | about kids. |
| 0:35.4 | And to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special, that they're |
| 0:42.4 | wanted and that they're blessing with huge stuff. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm Jim Daley, and we love kids. |
| 0:48.4 | Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's. |
| 0:51.9 | When you donate today, your gift will be doubled at focusonthefamily.com slash gift. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. |
| 1:05.6 | You can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:13.1 | After more than three decades of marriage, it's still kind of amusing in many ways that |
| 1:18.8 | Dean and I, my wife and I have different needs. |
| 1:22.8 | She wants to talk in the morning, I would prefer to talk in the evening. |
| 1:27.5 | I go to bed late, she goes to bed early. |
| 1:31.0 | I need strong coffee, she needs fru fru coffee. |
| 1:34.6 | The list goes on and on from deep stuff to really lighthearted stuff. |
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