Making Space for Humor
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Some of the sweetest memories with your spouse will probably involve laughing together. The truth is, appreciating each other's sense of humor can be one of the greatest blessings in your relationship. Greg and Erin tell John about how they've learned to have fun and laugh together as a couple.
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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 |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.4 | marriage podcast. One of the best things about being married is developing a |
| 0:46.2 | shared sense of humor together and over time you learn to appreciate what your |
| 0:51.5 | spouse thinks is funny and my girls would say my dear wife thinks I am funny |
| 0:57.8 | just to the core. They think if I read the weather to Dean issue it left and I |
| 1:02.7 | do make a goal of mine every day if I can to get Dean it to laugh because I love |
| 1:08.3 | hearing her laugh. I'm John Fuller joined by Aaron and Greg Smalley in the |
| 1:12.4 | studio. They're in charge of the marriage team here at focus on the family and |
| 1:16.2 | Greg how can laughter help a couple especially if they're prone to fighting a |
| 1:22.1 | lot? Yeah laughter can help during conflict it can also make it worse so you've |
| 1:27.6 | got a real weapon wise exactly I remember one time Aaron had asked me to make |
| 1:34.1 | sure that I put some raw chicken we just cook some things and so there's a |
| 1:39.4 | little bit of chicken left over she said now make sure that you clean it up she |
| 1:43.6 | had to to leave with our older daughters they were gonna go do something so I'm |
| 1:47.6 | like yeah I got it why forget so my youngest daughter and I are just down playing |
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