MP 044: Criticizing Your Husband
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
Wives: which statement do you agree with more, regarding your husband? "I don't know how I could live without him" or "I don't know how he could live without me." Do we treat our husbands like a child? Do we criticize our husbands in public or to our friends? Criticism doesn't achieve the change women are looking for -- ever! Attacking the need to be respected is a sure way to put your marriage on the road to danger. How can wives speak to their husbands respectfully? How can husbands and wives work as a team to improve their marriage and their lives?
Being disrespected rarely motivates a man.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.2 | And this is a conversation that we hope to actually be a conversation starter for you and your spouse on marriage and family issues. |
| 0:16.9 | We're far from experts, but we've been married for 22 years. |
| 0:22.6 | And we have 10 children, ages 3 to 20. |
| 0:26.9 | And I think this is actually going to be a very interesting topic for us today. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, I think it's very important. |
| 0:32.3 | And something that some of my sisters have asked us to talk about |
| 0:36.6 | because it's something that they see a lot in their communities. |
| 0:39.4 | And that is basically putting down men, specifically our husbands. Um, and really to the point of emasculating them of making and treating our... |
| 0:50.8 | I don't even like that word. |
| 0:52.0 | I know. |
| 0:53.3 | Something's wrong there. |
| 0:55.6 | But really, treating them like they are another child. |
| 1:01.3 | Right. |
| 1:01.6 | And why is that so harmful? |
| 1:03.7 | So we're going to talk about that today. |
| 1:05.6 | Right. |
| 1:06.0 | So let's begin in prayer. |
| 1:07.4 | Okay. |
| 1:08.0 | Name the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
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