Identifying Triggers in Your Marriage (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Amber and Guy Lia discuss common, everyday things – from house cleaning and backseat driving to workaholism and lack of intimacy – which can provoke anger and tension in marriage. Our guests explain how couples can identify those 'triggers' and deal with them in a healthy way. Jim Daly's wife, Jean, joins the conversation. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0	For decades we've helped Tom's family with parenting, adoption, and what it means to be pro-life.
0:09.0	It's just typical of the way focus on the family has worked over the years. They just
0:14.5	provide very practical, publicly based things that help people to make the right
0:20.9	choice and then support people in ways that really are necessary.
0:25.2	That's why Tom and his wife give monthly to encourage and equip other families.
0:30.6	Focus on the families out in the front lines of things that you know are necessary in the culture
0:35.2	and in the community and we as Christians are called to support God's work in that way.
0:40.7	It's just a blessing to us to be a part of it.
0:43.0	I'm Jim Daly. I'm inviting you to give monthly so that together we can save even more families.
0:50.0	Join our Friends of Focus on the Family team by calling 800 a family or donate at
0:56.0	Focus on the family.com slash family.
0:59.0	So I had to do a cleaning house of my idols and my thinking and it had to start with me.
1:09.0	That the Lord had to work in me to work on how I was going to love Guy because regardless of whatever Guy did
1:14.9	or didn't do, even if he was sinning, it did not mean that I had to sin. And so I
1:21.2	had to start being humble and saying, okay Lord, trying to fix him isn't working.
1:25.8	You've got to start fixing me.
1:27.8	Well today we're all about marriage and Amber Leah joins us on Focus on the Family along with your husband
1:34.2	guide to help you learn how to de-escalate and have a more peaceful
1:38.2	relationship with your spouse. Your host is Focus President and author Jim
1:42.4	Bailey and I'm John Fuller.
1:44.0	John it's pretty normal for marriages to experience the ebb and flow of relationship.
1:48.8	You have those beautiful days, those wonderful moments and then you have the maybe not so wonderful moments like do I have to
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