Marriage: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
- What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “I was telling myself a different story”?
- Are there any persistent false narratives that tend to repeat themselves in a marriage?
- How does our personal history shape the stories we tell ourselves?
- How does making assumptions about our spouse hurt our relationship?
- What does it mean to take our thoughts captive (2 Corinthians 10:5)?
- If false stories thrive in the dark, what should we do with them?
- Is it possible to not be defensive when someone shares the assumption they made about you?
- 2 Corinthians 10:5
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:13.3 | Hey, this is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my two fantastic co-host, Mrs. Cassie Brian, |
| 0:18.6 | and my wife, Mrs. Chelsea Griffin, Cassie. Hi. Do you have a favorite classic fairy tale or fable? Oh, my goodness. I mean. Like three little pigs. Thinking like Goldilocks and the three bears. A lot of three little mikes. I do love the, I do love Goldilocks. Because just the idea of contentment, right? And I don't know. There was it that there's a just right out there if you could find it? Yeah, but I don't think, I think that's the, and I guess she does find it, but not really, because she's stealing it. So. No, I mean. Really calling out Goldilocks. I love stories. I'm trying to think fairy tale. Does George McDonald count? We love the light princess. George |
| 0:56.3 | McDonald, he was C.S. Lewis's favorite author. Oh, convicted. He writes a lot of fiction. Cassie |
| 1:00.6 | always talks to us like we were classically educated. |
| 1:04.8 | Well, you love G.S. Lewis, right? I thought maybe. Yeah, I like C.S. Lewis. Yeah, Adam does. Yeah. I just |
| 1:10.4 | apparently haven't read what he read, except for the Bible, but yeah. Which is great. Not a fairy tale or fables. Yeah, true, true story. Chelsea, favorite fairy tale, favorite fable? Myth, legend. I don't really like stories like that. You don't like stories at all? Well, you know, I get like... She said like that. During movies and like I can never remember what movies are about. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. You don't like stories at all? Well, you know, I get like, she said like that. During movies and, like, I can never remember what movies are about. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.6 | How about a favorite sports movie of all time? |
| 1:34.3 | Sports story. |
| 1:35.3 | Hmm. |
| 1:36.9 | Let's see here. |
| 1:38.9 | What's a really good sports movie? |
| 1:40.6 | I think probably Happy Gilmore. |
| 1:43.1 | Happy Gilmore. |
| 1:44.6 | You have to save his grandma's house. |
| 1:45.4 | He's a hero. He's a true story of becoming a professional golfer to save your grandma's house from going into foreclosure. Classic. That's important. It is important. I thought you were going to say, like, remember the Titans or something like Hoosiers, Gene Hackman passed away this week. Maybe Hoosiers would come up. but yeah, yeah, no, there we go. Happy Gilmore. |
| 2:02.0 | Well, speaking of stories, speaking of the greatest stories of all time, like happy |
| 2:07.0 | Gimor. Today's episode, I want to talk about the stories we tell ourselves. Cassie, what comes to |
| 2:12.7 | mind when you hear that phrase? I was telling myself this story or a different story. What comes to mind for you when we say |
| 2:18.8 | that? Well, I think we live in a narrative. And typically we're the hero in our narrative, |
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