How Your Birth Order Shapes Your Marriage

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Your birth order reveals some important clues about your personality and your relationship with loved ones. Dr. Kevin Leman discusses how birth order can affect your marriage. He reveals which pairings are the most complementary, and which ones might induce more conflict. Everyone is made uniquely, and Dr. Leman wants all couples to lean into their birth order strengths to make the most out of their marriages. At the end of this engaging conversation, we open the floor to the audience so that they might ask Dr. Leman specific questions regarding the subject matter.

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0:00.0	The little girl you once were guess what you still are and so you take that
0:06.9	birth order with you and you take it into marriage and you live it out in the
0:11.5	place of work and everything else and it's to know who you
0:15.5	are what you came from is important and you're affected by what's above you in
0:21.3	the family much more than what's beneath you in the family, much more than what's beneath you in the family.
0:25.0	That's Dr. Kevin Lehman, sharing about the impact that birth order can have on your marriage.
0:30.2	I'm John Fuller and welcome to another edition to focus on the family with Jim
0:33.4	daily.
0:34.4	Dr. Lehman has been here so often he's kind of a ubiquitous guest at some level.
0:38.4	Oh that's a good word. What's that mean? I can't tell you for sure.
0:41.3	He's everywhere. And Dr. Lehman for the past 40 years has been
0:45.1	talking about birth order. And you know I'm looking forward to the conversation
0:48.9	because it applies when you read the book and we have, Gene and I have read this book a couple of times it is
0:56.5	Just amazing how accurate it can be that's probably not a one shoe fits all sizes, but'll talk about that with Dr. Lehman today.
1:05.0	Yeah and the book you're referencing is the birth order book, Why You Are the Way You Are by Dr. Kevin Lehman.
1:11.0	And of course we have copies of the book here at the ministry
1:13.7	check the show notes or give us a call 800 the letter A in the word family.
1:18.0	Dr Kevin Lehman welcome back to focus on the family. You know I always feel at home here.
1:23.4	Glad to be with you. Well let me ask you out of the let me play the kind of the naysayer.
1:29.0	Really is it this simple Kevin just because where you're born in your birth order it's predictive
1:33.6	of how you're going to treat people how you're going to behave what you're going to do
1:37.9	sounds a little too simplistic. Well it is rather simplistic but the fact is the little boy Jim Daly once was, he still is.
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