MP 009: Arguing in Marriage
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
"A happy marriage is a union of two forgivers" - Ruth Bell Graham
The only person in the world you will always agree with is yourself. Especially in marriage, people are going to disagree and this can lead to heated arguments between two people who really love each other. This is normal and healthy! We have to fight to work out our differences and come to a greater unity in our marriage. The goal of an argument should not be to be right, but to be unified. Even if you disagree, arguments should lead to greater clarity and understanding. In this podcast, we talk about why to argue, principles for good arguing, and some basic ground rules.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Go ahead. Your mic's on. |
| 0:10.5 | I thought you were checking the mics. |
| 0:12.1 | No, no. I got it covered. |
| 0:13.1 | You know what, Mike? I don't see any lights on on the computer. |
| 0:15.9 | Are you listening to me? |
| 0:17.1 | And you know what? I'm looking at, I'm listening to you, but I see what I'm seeing. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm the one. Are we having an argument right now before the podcast even begins? All right. Welcome to |
| 0:28.0 | messy parenting. A Catholic conversation on marriage and family. And I'm Mike Hernan. And I'm |
| 0:34.6 | Alicia Hernan. And tonight we're going to be, or today we're going to be talking |
| 0:39.4 | about arguing. We thought this was important. We've already talked about siblings, |
| 0:46.0 | siblings arguing, sibling conflict. Now we thought, you know what, let's get to where the real |
| 0:50.4 | arguments happen. Yeah. So I mean, some of you may, uh, may be married to a saint, |
| 0:55.4 | but my wife is not. And so we, we, we happen to, we happen to argue every now and then. |
| 1:02.1 | Uh, I think we're arguing less these days, maybe, but, uh, we have less time to talk. We barely |
| 1:08.0 | see each other. I know. You can't argue as much just by a text as I'm traveling or something. |
| 1:12.7 | That's right. |
| 1:14.0 | Anyway, but before we get into the whole subject, maybe you could open us up with a prayer. |
| 1:18.5 | Absolutely. |
| 1:20.1 | The name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:22.2 | Amen. |
| 1:23.0 | Lord Jesus, we ask you to send your Holy Spirit to be with us. |
| 1:32.0 | Help us to address this subject with clarity for all of those who are out there listening. |
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