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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Making Helpful Changes in Your Communication (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mike Bechtle wants to help people communicate better, especially in our social media world where everybody is talking all at once and nobody is listening. Mike explains we need “more weight” or value to our communication in order to be heard, and he talked about how we can use emotion in positive ways to energize our conversations. (Part 1 of 2)


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0:00.0

Everybody around us this summer.

0:02.0

I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that a lot of folks in

0:07.3

their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriages fall apart and it's

0:11.8

scared us.

0:13.0

After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale.

0:16.2

He wanted something better for he and his wife.

0:18.9

That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day.

0:24.4

It's on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to

0:31.9

see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our

0:37.5

marriage.

0:38.6

I'm Jim Dele.

0:40.0

Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better.

0:44.9

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0:47.6

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0:52.9

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1:01.2

I've had a number of times where somebody was talking non-stop and I should have interrupted,

1:06.7

but I didn't.

1:08.4

Sometimes I try to make a joke and either I don't time it right or it's just not a good

1:12.2

joke and then I end up regretting it all and wanted to put a shoe in my mouth.

1:17.5

When I was planning my wedding, my mom and I were looking at some flower girl dresses

1:21.9

and I wanted one color and she was telling me that that was not the right color to use

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