Navigating the Common Challenges of Marriage, Part 6
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 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 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.4 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 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 | A lot of us think of our spouse as our best friend, but we don't spend a lot of time |
| 0:47.8 | with that best friend. We're just too busy. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley who's in charge of our marriage department here at |
| 0:55.0 | Focus on the family and Greg you counsel a lot of couples how common is it for |
| 1:00.4 | those couples to spend enough time together or to feel like they're spending enough time together. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a huge problem. I think universally we all feel busy. |
| 1:11.0 | Every couple is dealing with how to find time together in the midst of working full time, raising kids, hobbies, responsibilities. |
| 1:19.0 | I think all of us are trying to figure out how to spend time together. |
| 1:23.4 | Well, let's go ahead and hear a little bit more about this from Dr. Gary Chapman. |
| 1:27.7 | He's the author of The Five Love Languages and many other great books. |
| 1:32.4 | He'll talk about navigating misunderstandings in your marriage |
| 1:35.1 | and how to spend more time together. |
| 1:37.8 | As I was reading your book, Happily Ever After, and parlaying that into a conversation with Gene. |
| 1:44.1 | There was an instance in there, and it really caught Gene. |
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