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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

How Do I Encourage My Husband to Set Boundaries With His Work?

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It's a good thing to have a hardworking husband, but sometimes men can become workaholics as their career overtakes their personal relationships. Pastor Mark and Grace answer a tough question sent in by a listener!

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0:00.0

Pastor Mark Driscoll here welcoming you to the podcast. I've been teaching the Bible for more than 30 years and real faith is an extraordinary ministry with a great team. It's not a big team but they're making a big

0:13.8

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impressions included of a billion plus people hearing about Jesus Christ through Bible teaching.

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Your prayers, your partnership would help us to do more and more and more and so in advance thank you for your

0:45.9

partnership. Welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcast with the Mark and Grace

0:51.6

Triscoll. We have got a question that is a common one, frequent one, and we'll answer it today.

0:58.0

How do I encourage a woman asks my husband, so it seems like you get to answer this one to set better

1:05.0

boundaries with his work wife feels like husband is too much into work not enough

1:12.4

focus maybe on marriage and or kids. How common is that?

1:17.0

Very.

1:18.0

Yeah, I think if you're not working on your relationship, it's easy for both of the spouses to focus on things other

1:25.6

than the marriage and get fulfilled through those things whether it's

1:30.2

friends or job or kids or community of some kind.

1:36.0

Yeah.

1:37.0

So that's an episode about, but like...

1:39.0

I thought I was answering.

1:40.0

Well, no, but to set up, I think what happens is the hip married wife gets focused on home and then kids

1:46.9

dad gets focused on work and providing for the wife and the kids and so their focus shifts and drifts. Yes, but even

1:56.1

without kids you know she can get focused on home or career or girlfriends or

2:02.2

whatever so yeah I think I mean or girlfriends or whatever.

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