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The Real Marriage Podcast

My Spouse is Very Independent

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7919 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Q&A Series // Ep. 1 Let's answer some of your questions! Today's question is from Mitch in Washington: My wife has a very independent spirit. How can I maintain leading her & our household? ----- For all links mentioned and more from the Real Marriage Podcast, visit: https://linktr.ee/realmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My question would be, you know, why did you get married if you want to be independent?

0:11.0

And so those are the things as women.

0:12.8

We need to sort through.

0:13.9

If we have an independent spirit about us, then probably shouldn't go into marriage, especially a Christian marriage.

0:21.3

Totally.

0:21.8

Because that's not how God set it up.

0:24.2

We're to be one, which means we're not independent from one another.

0:28.0

And so I would, yeah, I would ask any woman who has that independent spirit why she's going into marriage.

0:35.6

If she wants to be married, get healed up from that and then go into marriage and be a good

0:41.9

wife, be a good spouse, be a mutual, serving, loving partner with your husband.

0:48.2

All right.

0:48.6

Welcome to the Real Marriage Podcast.

0:50.8

We are doing a couple of Q&As, and this one just came in from Mitch

0:56.9

on Instagram.

0:58.5

You never, you're not on social media, right?

1:01.0

No, I'm not.

1:01.9

Okay, so let me tell you that it works.

1:03.2

So, yeah, social media is a septic tank, and at the top is Instagram, and then in the

1:09.6

middle is Facebook, and at the bottom of the septic

1:11.8

tank is Twitter.

1:13.0

So this comes from the top of the septic tank.

1:16.1

Yes.

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