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Oh, that honeymoon phase.

It can be such a sweet time until everything comes to a screeching halt.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Huerta, who runs our parenting department here at Focus on the Family and

Danny it's not the same in every relationship or every family but sometimes we

kind of choose to ignore the little things that bother us about our spouse or a family member until those

things just kind of become elephants in the room and we're not talking about Dunbar or

other kinds of elephants are we I mean those things are just glaring they're huge.

And there's some days when we're more patient with those things than others.

I mean there's some days where we haven't gotten enough sleep or other things are happening or

bringing stress from work or or from other places we've been or even the

marriage relationship and it spills into our ability to have patients with our kids.

I picture patients as a continuum,

and sometimes we wake up with a nine

that we're gonna be super patient,

and then we have a one.

We're already drained to start the day, so we're going to be less patient.

I don't know if it's honeymoon each day probably has its own little honeymoon period where

we feel a little bit more self-control than others, but I know this one real thing, it's called misophonia, which is the annoyance

of loud chewing and noises that other people make. And sometimes we can tolerate those. I know in dating we do that right?

And then after a wildly my wife did in dating because she's mentioned, do you know how

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