It's really good to laugh with your spouse, but making fun of him or her in front of others

can do a lot of damage.

And we're going to be talking about why it's good to use your words positively to bless

your spouse instead of criticizing them or making fun of them.

I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who had up our marriage department and

Greg, I think you and Aaron have sometimes made fun of each other, banter, banter,

back.

I mean, there are times when that gets serious, though, and it becomes kind of an arrow,

not a playful little dart.

Right.

And I think, you know, 31 years into marriage, I try to be super cautious around that, even

at home, even with their own kids, because I want to model that can be a very difficult

style of relating when we get into a lot of the negative banter, the sarcasm, the teas

in each other.

And again, Aaron, I'd love to be playful with each other and kind of we do that privately,

more than we're probably going to do that publicly.

I did this.

We were speaking and John, you may have been there.

So I think it was a, it was a big focus event.

I think all of us were there.

So there was a fantastic marriage researcher, his name is Brad Wilcox, anything that he's

doing.

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