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Intentionally Listening

FamilyLife Today®

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Would your spouse say they feel "heard"? Authors Kevin and Marcia Myers help unearth a new level of intimacy through the power of intentionally listening.

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0:00.0

About 10 years in we figured it out and we wrote Fairfite rules and we were learning them all along

0:05.2

But I'll give you the first just the beginning of the principle

0:08.6

When you're under pressure and you have conflict you want to be heard

0:11.8

The objective is not to be heard but to hear so my job is to listen and our rule is I have not listened until she says I have

0:31.0

Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most

0:36.4

I'm Ann Wilson and I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app. This is Family Life today

0:46.0

So I remember sitting at the Family Life we can remember marriage get away two weeks before our wedding. Yes

1:04.8

Which it was a

1:06.7

Phenomenal weekend in fact, I got to say this you know before we jump in if you want to go to a Family Life weekend

1:11.6

Remember sign up right now because it's half off. Yeah, they're happening right now. We paid full price

1:16.9

We did

1:18.5

Half off. Yeah, and you can do that Family Life today.com. I'm telling you it'll literally change your marriage

1:24.4

But we were sitting there

1:26.7

Engaged two weeks from that Saturday. We're going to be getting married and

1:31.6

I'll never forget Dennis Rainey was on the stage and you know at the time president and founder of Family Life

1:37.8

And he said something like this and I know exactly because it's in the in the manual

1:42.9

We now teach it. Yeah, but he says conflict is common to all marriages and what do you think? Go through

1:49.2

Oh, what do you think? I mean, we're sitting there before we're getting married and we both thought

1:53.2

Not our marriage. I really thought there has been no one on the entire planet that has loved and love each other at the way we do

2:03.0

No one

2:04.2

And I think every couple thinks that like nothing compares to our love for one another

2:09.3

I remember sitting around watching all these couples take notes. We didn't take any notes. We're like

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