How to Fight Fair (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Marriage coaches Les and Leslie Parrott offer practical advice on how spouses can avoid destructive conflict and learn to "fight a good fight" that will strengthen, rather than damage, their relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new |
| 0:05.6 | documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose |
| 0:11.1 | courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how |
| 0:17.4 | you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration. |
| 0:22.4 | Sign up at truthrising.com. |
| 0:24.8 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.7 | We're here to talk about conflict. |
| 0:33.0 | How do you fight a good fight? |
| 0:35.1 | In fact, we might as well ask you, |
| 0:36.2 | what do you guys fight about? |
| 0:37.4 | Just holler it out. What do you fight about? Money. That is actually the number one thing. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, it is. More than any other topic, money. What else? Kids, all right. I'll identify |
| 0:50.7 | with that. Time, how we spend our time. Isn't it true we fight about anything and everything? |
| 0:55.8 | I mean, you know, how you drive, you know. |
| 0:59.5 | Get in the left lane. |
| 1:00.6 | I am in the left lane, you know, that kind of stuff. |
| 1:04.0 | What a great example of the humor and insight that Doctors Les and Leslie Parrott offer in their seminars, |
| 1:10.3 | and you're going to hear more |
| 1:11.2 | from them today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:17.2 | John, you know, being able to fight well, or as we say in the daily household, disagreeing well, |
| 1:22.4 | is really the key to all relationships. Gene and I try to do that in our marriage. We don't always succeed. I can say |
| 1:29.2 | that honestly. We try to fight fair or disagree fair and make sure that when we get into conflict, |
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