Opening a Closed Heart
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It's one of the worst things that can happen in a marriage: when your spouse's heart closes. If that happens, it can take a long time for the relationship to be restored. John Fuller and Erin Smalley discuss ways to speak kindly to your spouse, even when he or she doesn't want to talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.2 | One of the worst things that can happen in your marriage is for you or your |
| 0:40.6 | spouse to feel unsafe in the relationship. When that happens, your mate's heart |
| 0:46.0 | is closed and it really is going to take time and effort to see that heart |
| 0:51.4 | open up again. I'm John Fuller along with Aaron Smolley. Aaron's husband Greg |
| 0:56.4 | is normally here. He's out today. We're going to be revisiting a |
| 0:59.8 | conversation Jim Daley and I had with the Smollies about this topic. Last time |
| 1:04.6 | they addressed ways to develop spiritual intimacy as a couple and today they're |
| 1:09.3 | going to offer insights about what to do when it seems like the love has grown |
| 1:13.8 | cold. |
| 1:14.6 | If a listener is saying I wish I had that but my heart's closed if they're |
| 1:19.2 | honest with themselves or maybe they're saying I think my husband's or my |
| 1:23.1 | spouse's heart is closed. How do they develop that safety in the marriage to |
| 1:29.0 | begin to open up to these ideas in a more accepting way in a let's do it |
| 1:33.9 | kind of way rather than it's never going to happen. Which is so critical |
| 1:37.6 | because that was one of the factors that contribute to people feeling like |
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