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marriage podcast. I don't know why but after 36 years almost 37 years of

marriage now I find that communication with my dear wife Dina is harder. Why is

that? I'm John Fuller along with a couple who can answer my question. They're

in charge of our marriage department here Dr Greg Smolley and his wife Erin. So

I mean you're the experts. Why is it harder after decades of marriage? Why do

the little things become accusations or assumptions or I step on her lines

and she gets all huffy or she steps on my lines? Why is that? I think part of it

is that we all experience times of miscommunication. Like I think about for

Erin and I I mean we communicate pretty well unless it's a schedule unless

it's it's you know we're going out with a couple or we have some activity

that night. So there are some circumstances. I would say very consistently we

have had issues around scheduling because it's it really it is a

communication issue because it's somebody will schedule something and the

other person doesn't know and then it's like well where's childcare and I have

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