Making Daily Choices to Love Your Spouse
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ron and Deb DeArmond discuss the importance of being intentional when it comes to loving your spouse, and offer practical suggestions for how you can do so in a conversation based on Ron’s book I Choose You Today: 31 Choices to Make Love Last.
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| 0:00.0 | Love is not a feeling. It's neither is marriage. It's a choice. One that you have to |
| 0:08.4 | make every single day even if you have to do it through gridded teeth. That's Deb D'Armond reminding us of what it takes to have a happy, healthy |
| 0:16.5 | marriage even when you may be facing some challenges with your spouse. This is focus on the family |
| 0:22.2 | with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and Deb and her husband Ron will be joining us today for our conversation. |
| 0:28.0 | John this one's going to be a bit of an ouch for me and Gene I know you're listening so I'm sorry where I didn't do this |
| 0:34.2 | well and the ouch is being more intentional in our marriages that's the key |
| 0:38.6 | finding we're going to talk more about today and we can't afford to just coast and I think some of the |
| 0:44.9 | husbands too and I'm sure some wives we are guilty of that at times you know we just kind of get |
| 0:49.3 | into the groove and pretty soon we're raising the kids and making the payments on the house and it just you know it's just life it is what it is |
| 0:57.6 | but we need to be reminded to be intentional and make sure our marriages are a priority in our relationship. |
| 1:05.6 | And that can be tough in this modern world. |
| 1:08.2 | We live in a culture that screams the opposite message that marriage is all about making you happy or fulfilling your needs |
| 1:15.7 | and the moment your spouse fails, oh, maybe, you know, I need someone new. |
| 1:21.5 | That's how human beings think even in the Christian community |
| 1:24.0 | unfortunately. Values like commitment, self-sacrifice in learning to |
| 1:29.2 | serve your spouse. I'm sure the hair on somebody's neck just went up. Learning to serve your spouse. I'm sure the hair on somebody's neck just went up. Learning to serve your |
| 1:34.8 | spouse. Are you serious, Jim? Yeah, actually, and I'm guilty of not always doing |
| 1:39.4 | it that well. We want to address that issue today so that your marriage can honor the Lord, which should be the ultimate goal. |
| 1:47.0 | And if you're looking for help and you want to improve in this area, hang on for the next 30 minutes. |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, and we do have lots of resources for your marriage here, |
| 1:58.0 | like our counseling team if you need some help and our free marriage assessment and that online tool can help you and your spouse get on the same page in terms of what's working well in the relationship and potentially areas where you could improve. |
| 2:11.5 | Check those out, the details are in the show notes. |
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