Marriage and Video Games

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

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Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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While some video games aren't necessarily bad, if they prevent you from communicating with your spouse, they can do great harm to your marriage. John, Erin and Greg provide some hope to those with a spouse who's addicted to playing video games. Featuring Bill and Pam Farrel.

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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.
0:35.6	Someone long ago observed that too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. And
0:41.3	certainly that applies to entertainment choices. You can easily get too much
0:46.9	and it can become too bad too quickly. I'm John Fuller here in the studio with
0:51.8	Greg and Erin Smolley. They are authors and speakers. They lead the focus
0:55.8	marriage team and we're going to start off today hearing from Bill and Pam
0:59.6	Ferrell. They're passionate about helping newlyweds succeed and they talked with
1:04.8	Jim Daley about something that could be good in small doses but it can really
1:09.7	interfere with your relationship. I'm talking about video games. One of the
1:14.5	areas this is showing itself in young couples today is video games. I want to
1:18.4	play a clip here from someone who's struggling in this area and get your
1:22.0	response. So I've only been married for a few years but my husband seems to be
1:26.9	obsessed with video games. It seems like he spends more time doing that than he
1:31.0	does with me or our two-year-old son. How can I get him to recognize that he's
1:37.4	addicted to this? I mean that is a really good question. It touches a lot of
1:42.1	young couples lives because that prolonged adolescence is occurring and
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