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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

How Conflict Can Make a Marriage Better

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How do you feel about conflict? John and the Smalley's share how they feel about it, and also describe ways conflict can actually make your marriage stronger. Featuring Mr. Jason and Mrs. Tori Benham.


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0:00.0

Are you the type of person who enjoys conflict in your relationship?

0:09.4

Some people seem to, I think most of us have avoided, I don't like conflict when it comes

0:14.4

up, but I do like to kind of press into it and lean into it and see if we can't find

0:18.8

a healthy resolution.

0:19.9

We're going to hear more about conflict today with two people that have never had a fight.

0:24.1

Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron, they never ever have we ever had a fight.

0:28.0

We lean to focus marriage team and you really, I mean, this is something that you two both

0:32.8

have experienced and you have some really great insights about it and conflict is a pretty

0:37.0

crucial element of the marriage relationship, isn't it?

0:39.9

It is, but it is a peacemaker.

0:42.2

It's hard for me because I would much rather by nature just avoid, ignore the other day

0:49.1

I was taking our brand new 15-year-old daughter, driver, finally has her permit and I was in

0:58.3

Aaron's car and Aaron had kind of said, hey, obviously you're not going to let her drive

1:03.1

and I was like, well, of course not.

1:04.7

Well, we get closer to neighborhood I pull over.

1:07.7

Now we're just in the little side streets heading toward neighborhood and I told the

1:11.7

Annie, hey, let's once you try and so get her driving down the road to right hand turns

1:18.4

us all we had to accomplish and so the last one, she, there was a car coming her way and

1:25.0

so she panicked, hit the accelerator and drove Aaron's car, smacked into the curb and the

1:32.5

whole tire just blew, like it's just exploded.

1:36.3

It knocked out her alignment, everything.

1:39.1

That has been the most expensive new driving experience I've ever had and so then I had

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