Love Languages & Blended Families

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Knowing and learning to speak your spouse's love language can revolutionize your marriage. The same is also true for those in blended families. John, Greg, and Erin share about ways they've seen how applying the love language principles can positively impact marriages. Featuring Dr. Gary Chapman and Mr. Ron Deal.

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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.
0:35.6	It's very possible that you've heard of a concept called the five love
0:39.8	languages originated by Dr. Gary Chapman. It is a tremendous tool for
0:45.4	understanding people. And today we're going to talk about how the five
0:49.0	love languages can help you in your blended family. I'm John Foller along
0:53.3	with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage team. And I wonder
0:57.6	certainly the two of you know your love languages. What I think we've
1:01.8	probably talked about them here. But what are they real quick? Greg's are words
1:06.0	of affirmation and quality time. Yeah. And Aaron's, she loves gifts. So any
1:13.2	gift that I bring her that just does it, but also acts of service. If you're
1:18.3	sitting there doing something and hey, I would love, you know, a drink of
1:22.2	water. And you think it, he makes it happen. And then she follows with a
1:26.6	snap snap snap. And that's good to know though. And I tell you the other
1:32.5	day Aaron sent me a text and was just affirming me as a dad, something
1:38.8	that she noticed that I did with one of our kids. It's amazing when she
1:43.6	affirms me how instantly I'm reminded of how important that is. I mean,
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