Making Your Expectations Clear

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

While no spouse can meet all of your dreams and desires, it's still important to make your expectations clear. Without sharing what you're expecting, you'll be setting yourself up for disappointment. John, Erin and Greg describe how they've seen unexpressed expectations cause tension in a marriage. Featuring Dr. Randy Schroeder.

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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.
0:35.8	Okay, so you listen to these podcasts and I'm assuming that you want to grow in
0:39.9	your marriage. So let me ask kind of an accountability question if I can. Was
0:44.2	there a time that you were mad at your spouse and you expressed anger and your
0:50.3	mate was completely caught off guard? If that ever happened in your relationship
0:56.2	then listen in. We've got some insights. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and
1:00.4	Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage team here at the ministry and Greg, you've
1:03.9	seen this kind of scenario played out. I'm sure in many other couples and maybe
1:07.6	even, oh I don't know, some friends. There's one guy named Greg. Yeah. You know
1:14.3	the thing that instantly came to my mind here and you probably remember this
1:18.0	one is we were moving into a new home in I was super stressed out. Just finances
1:24.8	and making sure that we had all the money to do this move. And Aaron is an
1:31.7	amazing dreamer and just if you see our home, you just see the kind of home that
1:37.2	she builds and creates an warm environment. So she was having fun just dreaming
1:42.8	thinking about different things that we needed. Well the more she kept talking
1:47.5	about, oh, and we need a new couch or we need this and that as those added up, I
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