Keys for Compromising Well
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Having a great marriage sometimes requires not getting your way. Without healthy compromise, selfishness can rob your relationship of strength and joy. John and the Smalley's explain the difference between good compromise and bad compromise in your marriage. Featuring Katherine Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | The Stara's first pregnancy was terminated when she was 15 years old. |
| 0:06.0 | She didn't understand what was happening. |
| 0:08.0 | After three more abortions, she finally learned the truth. |
| 0:12.0 | I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human being in your stomach. |
| 0:21.0 | And I was like, wow, that's pro life. |
| 0:24.7 | Today, Dostara has six children who represent God's love and forgiveness in her life. |
| 0:31.0 | And today, Dostara is a pro-life advocate. |
| 0:34.3 | So it's focus on the family has definitely sharpened me and I'm looking forward to |
| 0:38.8 | continuing to being sharpening. I'm not embarrassed anymore about the choices that I made. I'm wanting to help. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms giving these families hope. Donate at |
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.1 | You're not always going to get your way, your own way in every relationship. |
| 1:17.7 | That seems especially true in marriage. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. They lead our marriage team here at Focus on the Family and Aaron you and Greg have learned to kind of work with each other and |
| 1:30.3 | Dean and I've had to do the same we learn kind of what's important and what's not and where to give and where not to give. |
| 1:37.0 | What do you think? |
| 1:38.0 | You know, it's important, John, and it's pretty much what you're saying that it's really figuring out how do we make sure that |
| 1:44.2 | both people matter in the relationship that there's room for both of us because |
| 1:48.7 | what I'll often say to couples is gosh if it's only about one person well is that really a marriage is that |
| 1:55.0 | a relationship or is it really a marriage? Is that a relationship or is it really kind of a dictatorship? |
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