Honey, What Did You Mean By...?

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever heard your mate say something, only to ask her about it later and she says, "What? That's not what I meant!" Sometimes, what we mean to say and what our spouse hears can be two completely different things. John, Greg and Erin share a powerful tool to help improve your marriage communication. Featuring Rob and Gina Flood.

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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	I wonder if you've ever been completely totally 100% sure you heard your spouse say
0:42.2	something only to ask about it later and she says what I didn't I didn't say
0:47.8	that. I didn't mean that. That hasn't happened to me in the past six hours. But
0:54.2	about that point in my day I was talking to my wife and she said no that's
0:58.9	not what I said. I said yeah you did. No no and she said you don't hear me. I
1:03.6	get frustrated that you don't hear me. I know you haven't been guilty of that
1:08.4	but I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by Greg and Aaron Smalley. We always
1:12.6	hear each other. They lead our marriage team and they're here for an intervention
1:15.8	on my behalf. Well I don't I didn't say that. What are you talking about? So as we
1:22.5	kick off let's go ahead and hear from Pastor Rob flood and his wife Gina. Rob is
1:27.3	a pastor and he's on staff at Covenant Fellowship Church in Pennsylvania. And the
1:32.8	floods talked to Jim Daley and me about ways to improve communication with your
1:37.9	spouse. Rob you have a knife analogy. I wanted to make sure we get to that. What
1:42.9	was the knife analogy and what can we learn from that? So one of the things
1:47.9	it's very important to realize is when when if your wife or your spouse ends up
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