Making Your Marriage Happy Now and Later, Part 5
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A happy marriage is made up of two people serving each other. By seeking out opportunities to bless your special someone, you'll find greater satisfaction than if you only chase happiness. John, Greg and Erin talk about ways to be a blessing to your spouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
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| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | How many times have you found yourself keeping score with your spouse? It's something I've done |
| 0:48.0 | and sort of like well she did that so and that might work well in sports but it's never a good |
| 0:52.4 | idea for your marriage. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and his wife Erin, and I'll just ask what's dangerous |
| 0:59.2 | about keeping score? Erin, I mean, it's just a little mental game I do right? Yeah, well we've been there. We've done that it didn't work so we don't recommend it |
| 1:09.2 | You know the truth is you're on the same team with your spouse so if you're one-uping you're comparing |
| 1:14.6 | you're keeping record of who does what it's never going to go well however there's |
| 1:19.8 | always the opportunity to let your spouse know I would like more help with this I am |
| 1:25.4 | feeling taken advantage of whatever it is that you're feeling let them know and |
| 1:29.2 | then have a good healthy open-hearted conversation about it not in the midst of feeling annoyed and |
| 1:34.4 | irritated. |
| 1:35.4 | You know, take some time and reflect on what am I feeling because of this. |
| 1:38.8 | And don't dwell on the negative. |
| 1:40.9 | I mean, it's just really bad to have a little journal of all the negative things my spouse did today. So we're going to return to a conversation about being more happy in your marriage as Jim Daly talks with Dr. Les and Leslie Parrot. |
| 1:54.0 | Les, let me start here again. |
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