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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

How Love Styles Can Help You Grow Closer as a Couple

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Our earliest childhood interactions will shape how we connect and communicate with each other as adults. The Yerkoviches and Camerons call these ways we interact “love styles,” and they describe how we can overcome wounds of our past to improve and strengthen our relationships, especially in marriage. 

 

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0:00.0

Okay, in today's group session, we're going to be talking about emotions and how we can process.

0:14.8

I don't have any emotions. I'm fine.

0:17.6

Stop avoiding the issue. Let's do what the counselor says.

0:21.6

Maybe I should take charge of this session.

0:23.6

Whatever you want.

0:24.6

I don't care.

0:25.6

Okay, okay, calm down everyone.

0:28.6

We can get along.

0:29.6

And look, I rock cupcakes.

0:31.6

I thought this was going to work, but it sounds like a waste of time. Well, maybe you can resonate with some of those

0:40.8

comments. Whenever someone says, let's talk about our feelings. Now, despite how awkward that

0:46.7

conversation might seem, it really is important to understand how and why we respond to each

0:51.8

other emotionally and relationally, and we're going to be exploring that, especially in the context of marriage today.

0:57.7

Thanks for joining us for Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

1:00.6

I'm John Fuller.

1:01.5

I think I'm up for the cupcakes.

1:03.3

Let's go, cupcakes.

1:04.6

Had me a cupcakes.

1:05.2

That always solves problems, right?

1:07.1

Hey, John, this is a good topic.

1:09.5

It sometimes is a tough topic. Maybe husbands tend to back up a little bit. We're going to talk about early childhood attachment issues and how they usually blossom then as an adult. And that shows up in your marriage a lot, like those trigger things. Yeah, you meant your marriage, John, right?

1:26.1

I met my marriage, John,

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