Navigating the Common Challenges of Marriage, Part 5
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Even though you love your spouse, he or she can still get on your last nerve sometimes. The key is knowing how to respond with grace when your spouse bugs you, instead of lashing out in anger. Greg and John share how to look past the little annoyances, so you can build a healthy marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective. |
| 0:09.0 | He said, the first thing you need to realize that kids are a blessing or all of the |
| 0:14.1 | blessings that their gifts from God and the second thing you said was kid value |
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| 0:29.2 | 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 | All right, so you love your spouse and there are a lot of reasons for that, but let's be honest. |
| 0:47.0 | There are some things about him or her that drive you crazy and Greg, we the 35 year mark here for Dean and me and it's |
| 0:56.8 | interesting I told her just the other day I said yeah you're very blunt and |
| 1:00.9 | opinionated and that's frankly that was a very win-some quality when I |
| 1:05.8 | married you it's irritating now and I was smiling when I said it but it is |
| 1:11.2 | sort of irritating to me now and we really it's funny because 35 years in we're still working on how to communicate and I chew too loudly. |
| 1:20.0 | So we've actually we've actually taken to turning up the dinner music so because there's something |
| 1:28.8 | about the way I chew that bothers my wife these are I never So I never offer you gums, by the way. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, I wouldn't chew gum here. |
| 1:36.0 | I can assure you of that. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm joined by the comic Dr. Greg Smalley. |
| 1:41.0 | And Greg, you know, it is interesting how those little things become annoyances. |
| 1:48.0 | They're like the pebble in the shoe thing. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm sure that if Aaron were here she would tell us about how you irritate |
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