Navigating the Common Challenges of Marriage, Part 2
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Criticizing your spouse may seem like a dangerous place to go but there is a respectful way to approach touchy topics. Featuring Dr. Gary Chapman.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
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| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | I think most people go into marriage looking for that happily ever |
| 0:46.4 | after state whatever that is but immediately it just seems like golly there's a |
| 0:51.8 | lot of work here to reach any part of happy let alone ever |
| 0:55.2 | after I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and Greg why are people so optimistic |
| 1:02.1 | about marriage I mean before especially before they get married. |
| 1:05.2 | Well why is that? Everybody wants a great marriage. They're excited with that hope that |
| 1:09.7 | possibility is they've looked off into the distance of what they hope their marriage is going to look like. |
| 1:15.0 | Have you ever counseled a couple that says, yeah, when we get married, we want it to be, you know, awful. |
| 1:20.0 | Usually, it doesn't happen. |
| 1:22.0 | It doesn't. The problem is I think the fantasy they buy into is in order to get that whatever |
| 1:29.3 | we're dreaming about for our marriage that somehow we can sort of hit the cruise control button or the autopilot show up it and it'll happen right send our marriage down the road and it's going to be okay and it just doesn't work that way |
| 1:41.6 | Well, Dr. Gary Chapman is going to address that today |
| 1:45.0 | as he talks with Jim Daly. |
| 1:48.0 | Why wouldn't we want the best for our spouse? |
| 1:50.0 | Why do we all of a sudden become indifferent to our marriages? |
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