My Wife Left the Church (and Wants Me to Leave Too)

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Relationships

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0	My wife let me know that she no longer wanted to attend to the church that we've been going to.
0:10.8	I just feel like she might share those same feelings towards me, right, that she has of this former church of ours that is a negative experience for her.
0:17.5	The words coming out of my mouth are going to be harsh.
0:20.3	I want you to know I'm
0:21.3	sitting right here with you. Okay.
0:28.9	What's up? What's up? What's up? This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show coming to you
0:34.2	live with a world on fire. Trying to be a voice of compassion and reason
0:40.1	in a world obsessed with just screaming at everybody and it feels like all the grown-ups
0:46.7	are sitting in the sandbox throwing sand at each other and saying I'm going to take my ball
0:51.1	and go home and the rest of us are trying to figure out how to pay for eggs and try to keep our kids safe and trying to figure out what AI meet like we're just
0:58.6	trying to figure out how to do life how to be married anymore and so cutting through all the noise
1:03.3	getting in under the smoke and sitting with you here just pull up a chair trying to figure out
1:10.1	what's the next right move for your marriage your
1:11.7	mental and emotional health for 20 plus years more than two decades now i've been sitting with
1:15.3	hurting people regardless of what's going on i've literally sat in people's front yard and held them
1:21.2	while we watch their house burn down sometimes i feel like that's what we're doing um that's what
1:26.5	i'm going to do on the show sit with you and help you figure out what's the next right move for you,
1:30.1	for your family, for your kids, for your friends, wherever you find yourself.
1:33.6	If you want to be on the show, I'd love to have you,
1:35.4	John Deloney.com slash ask.
1:38.0	We used to have a toll-free number, and then the youths were like,
1:41.5	what's toll-free mean? And what's a phone? We talk into it.
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