Marriage Should Make You Happy (and other bad relationship advice) with Gary Thomas

Talk To Me: The Debra Fileta Podcast

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Talk Radio, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Default

4.8 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Marriage should make you happy. That's the relationship advice we hear all the time. But is it even true? How much weight do we need to put on our happiness? What is the secret ingredient to creating happiness in marriage? Does happiness create a good marriage, or does a good marriage create happiness? And what happens when you're not happy? Is it even realistic to say we're going to be happy all the time in marriage? We need to take the time to evaluate this relationship advice, and make sure we're questioning it and seeing it for what it's worth. Marriage Should Make You Happy - or Should It? Today, my friend, pastor, and bestselling author of Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas, helps me tackle this important bad relationship advice, because it's advice that's hurting many marriages. We're going to take a look at both scripture and psychology and get to the root of this bad relationship advice, and offer you a BETTER perspective - a perspective that helps us look at holiness before we look at happiness. Tune in to Episode 70 of the Love + Relationships Podcast and subscribe to the show by clicking on the button below! SUBSCRIBE AND LISTEN ON iTUNES BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER - SPOTIFY - GOOGLE PLAY - iHEART RADIO Get counseling from the comfort of your own home this year! Online professional counseling + Believers in Christ. Check out Faithful Counseling at http://getfaithful.com/debra - 10% off your first month!! Love + Relationships Podcast Notes: FROM TODAY'S EPISODE: ORDER DEBRA'S NEWEST BOOK! For other great episodes of the Love + Relationships Podcast check out: Spring: Is Your Relationship Growing? Summer Is When Things Get Hot: On Intimacy Colors of Fall: Questions To Ask Your Partner NOT Assume Winter: The frost of Apathy and How To Deal With It FREE QUIZ: IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP HEALTHY MORE BOOKS BY DEBRA Get busy learning what you need to know about healthy singleness, dating, and marriage. Check out Love In Every Season: The Four Stages of Every Healthy Relationship, Choosing Marriage: Why It Has To Start With We > Me or True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of Your Life. And Check out Debra's Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season. She's also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to the love and relationships podcast. I'm your host, Deborah Felita,
0:23.8	and I'm so glad you're tuning into these candid conversations about love, sex, dating, singleness,
0:29.5	and marriage. For those of you who don't know me or are tuning in for the first time, I'm a licensed
0:34.5	professional counselor and author specializing in relationship issues.
0:38.4	I also run the Relationship Advice blog True Love Dates.com, reaching millions of people with the message
0:44.9	that healthy people make healthy relationships.
0:48.5	If you've tuned into the podcast before, you know it's a hotline style show, meaning people
0:53.6	call in or write in with their
0:55.1	relationship questions, and I answer them on this show in short, practical, bite-sized
1:00.1	answers. If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show, send it via email or
1:05.6	voice memo to Deborah at true lovedates.com or check out my podcast page, truelovedates.com slash love and relationships.
1:13.5	And I'll do my best to get it answered on one of the episodes. So let's get started.
1:23.1	Welcome back to the bad relationship advice series where we've been taking common relationship
1:29.9	advice that's actually really bad and offering you a counter perspective, offering you
1:37.2	relationship advice that you can count on. And we've been tackling different bad
1:42.6	relationship advice over the past few weeks.
1:44.7	But today's bad advice is a really important one because it's one that we hear often and
1:50.2	it's impacting a lot of marriages.
1:52.3	And it's the advice that you should be happy in marriage because marriage is all about your
1:59.3	happiness.
2:08.3	And my friend and pastor, Gary Thomas, the author of Sacred Marriage, which is a book all about why marriage really isn't about your happiness, is joining me today on the
2:13.7	podcast to tag team this bad relationship advice and offer you some practical and inspiring
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