Listen to the Metronome

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Like music needs a metronome to sound good, your marriage needs a rhythm to help you stay connected. But is that possible when your schedule feels overloaded? John, Erin and Greg discuss ways to make time for your spouse, even with a crowded schedule.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:37.3	You know, as a husband or wife, there are times when your schedule is crowded and
0:41.3	you've got activities and work responsibilities, things to fix around the
0:44.6	house, errands to run. But the time you see your spouse, maybe at the end of
0:48.8	the day, you have no energy left. And you can probably identify with that. My
0:54.4	wife and I just this morning looked at each other and I said, it's one of
0:58.2	those seasons, isn't it? We are just not connecting. We've got to work on
1:02.6	that. If you're feeling the same way, we have help for you today. I'm John Fuller
1:07.9	joined by Greg and Aaron Smolley. They're in charge of our focus on the family
1:11.4	marriage team. And Jim Daley and I talked with Greg and Aaron a while back about
1:16.6	a time when Aaron came to Greg and said, I love you, but I feel like we're
1:21.0	married roommates. Let's go ahead and listen to more from that conversation.
1:26.1	Let me ask you this again for that person listening and they're, okay, am I in
1:30.9	that roommate phaser? Am I in the soulmate phase in my marriage? Let's give some
1:36.2	description to that roommate. You identified several characteristics that the
1:40.8	married roommate experiences like. Give me some of those. Yeah. So someone might
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