How do I get my Husband to do chores? - Bonus Q&A

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this bonus episode, Mark and Grace answer a question from a wife on how to encourage her husband to want to do chores around the house when he gets home from work. Husbands, listen up. Wives, you're welcome. They also share some of their favorite marriage resources and where you can find them. These questions came from questions they answered on YouTube. Subscribe and find more of Mark and Grace on YouTube here. TEXT MOREGRACE to 31996 to go deeper into every episode this season and the book with Grace's Win Your War Study Guide. Take what you’ve heard and start putting it to practical use with questions for personal reflection and discussions for you and your spouse. Marriage Resources Mark & Grace talked about: Four Laws of Love by Jimmy Evans XO Now App - Online teaching by leading marriage experts. XO Marriage Events XO Podcast Network Other books by Jimmy Evans Find more from Mark and Grace at xomarriage.com/realmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Pastor Mark and Grace here trying to help during crazy times.
0:04.7	This is going to be fun.
0:06.4	All right, you ready?
0:07.0	Here's the question.
0:07.8	And if you got one, send it into hello at mark triskel.org, a wife is asking a question.
0:12.3	She says, I was wondering the role of a husband serving in the household chores to help relieve the quote-unquote stressed-out mom.
0:20.4	The household is the families and not just the mothers.
0:24.7	Is it not sacrificial for the husband to have a servant's heart towards his family after work hours?
0:32.9	This feels like a setup.
0:34.8	This is like the wife is asking,
0:36.9	my husband won't do what I tell him to do.
0:39.2	If he was like, Jesus, wouldn't he do what I tell him to do?
0:42.0	Mark, please tell him to do what I'm telling him to do.
0:44.3	What would you say that she should do and he should do?
0:46.7	And then I'll just watch.
0:51.5	Well, we as wives are told to be busy at home and training the younger women to do likewise.
0:59.7	So we are called to keep the home that can look like all kinds of different things.
1:04.6	There's no biblical roles as far as like...
1:07.1	Who vacuums, who does the ditches, who does the laundry.
1:10.2	You need to determine that together.
1:12.1	And both of you need to be sacrificial in how you're serving each other.
1:15.8	Inside the home, outside the home, inside the bedroom, outside the bedroom, all over the place
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