Marriage is Like a Canoe
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When your spouse gets on your nerves, it hits much closer to home than when someone else does. If left unchecked, those little annoyances can become sources of tension and conflict. John and the Smalleys explain how working through your differences can make you a stronger 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 things that I was so attracted to in my now wife |
| 0:46.7 | Dina when we were first dating was her spontaneity. She would just hey let's |
| 0:51.6 | go do this. Hey let's do that. Hey now to be fair we don't have as much of |
| 0:56.8 | that as we used to but just the other day was something simple. We had left |
| 1:02.6 | somebody's house for a little gathering and on the way home I she said go down |
| 1:08.7 | this road. There was this adventurous spontaneous part of Dina that wanted to go |
| 1:13.2 | exploring out in the country and we spent about 45 minutes just driving around |
| 1:17.3 | and it was very nice. Adventure kind of makes her come alive. I'm John Fuller |
| 1:23.4 | along with Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron and they're in charge of our |
| 1:27.2 | marriage team here at Focus on the Family. Greg what are some things that |
| 1:30.8 | attracted you to Aaron early on? Oh she is one of the most passionate people that |
| 1:36.4 | I know and the things that that she likes and is interested in is passionate |
| 1:42.1 | about. It's infectious. I would listen to her going on about certain things |
| 1:47.4 | that I literally had no interest in only to find myself thinking about those |
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