Loving Your Wife With Your Words
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Frederick helps you as a husband learn how to better love your wife in the way you speak with her. From seemingly small efforts like thinking before you respond and asking insightful questions to building a shared language, you’ll pick up some great tips on how to better communicate for a stronger bond with your wife.
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| 0:00.0 | My wife is tough but she shouldn't have to be tough on account of me. |
| 0:06.0 | She shouldn't have to be, I shouldn't be the reason that she is calloused, right, in some way. |
| 0:11.0 | I should be the safe place for her and I think so many times as |
| 0:14.0 | husbands we wield our words without that occurring to us that we just we're so |
| 0:19.1 | familiar and we are overly overly tough and over over the combative at times with our wife. |
| 0:24.0 | So that was a conviction I had and so I'm encouraging men to think more clearly |
| 0:29.0 | about their own. |
| 0:30.0 | We talked about this toughness in terms of work |
| 0:32.0 | but also just toughness in terms of familiarity. |
| 0:34.0 | That's Ryan Frederick, and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm John Fuller, and thank you for listening and watching. |
| 0:41.0 | John, you know, right at the heart of Focus on the Family, it's about marriage. |
| 0:45.4 | I mean, that is the foundation. |
| 0:46.8 | Of course, first is your relationship with Christ. |
| 0:49.7 | But second is marriage and then the kids and making sure that's all moving in a godly direction. |
| 0:55.0 | And man we believe in marriage and we also believe marriage it requires some work. |
| 1:01.0 | You gotta work at it in order to make it thriving and good. |
| 1:05.2 | And sometimes we do it well, and sometimes we don't do that very well. |
| 1:09.2 | And today is gonna be one of those days. |
| 1:11.0 | We're gonna be talking to men and and you wives |
| 1:15.2 | about how men should be communicating and this is going to be a little rough for me. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm glad you're smiling about that. I think most of us know I have some shortcomings when it comes to |
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