How Integrity Leads to Intimacy
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Integrity is for a marriage what a foundation is for a house. Without it, your relationship will fall apart. John, Greg and Erin discuss what genuine integrity looks like, and how to talk with your spouse about difficult things.
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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 |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage |
| 0:41.1 | podcast. What comes to your mind when I say the word integrity? I'm John Fuller |
| 0:47.8 | along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. They run our marriage department and Greg |
| 0:51.4 | what do you think it means to have integrity first as a person and then |
| 0:54.6 | within the the marital relationship? Yeah I think it's two things. One is sort of |
| 0:59.2 | an authenticness to where I'm willing to be known. There I'm willing to be an |
| 1:04.8 | open book that I'm not keeping secrets that I'm letting Aaron see who I really |
| 1:11.0 | am because that's that's scary for a lot of people. If I if you really see who I am |
| 1:16.0 | will you love me? So it's it's hard. I think the other part is then there's a |
| 1:20.5 | consistency who I am when it's just me and Aaron or me Aaron and the kids is |
| 1:26.6 | the same when we're around other people when we're out in public. My father |
| 1:31.0 | a great example of this that he was a well-known author speaker and I and |
| 1:36.6 | people would say what was that like and what was he really like and I would say |
| 1:40.8 | you know it honestly who he is up on that stage is exactly who he is at home and |
| 1:46.8 | and I think that's a big part of integrity for a marriage and a family is |
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