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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Paying Attention to What Your Spouse Doesn't Like

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

All of us have annoying habits that get on our spouse's nerves. Rather than sweeping them under the rug, it's better to see those habits as opportunities to work through annoyances together. John talks with Greg and Erin about aggravations they've worked through in their relationship. Featuring Mr. Gary Thomas.

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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

0:28.2

today.

0:35.8

It's important to know what your spouse likes and doesn't like and to not kind of

0:41.5

you know get after them in something that really irritates them. For instance, my

0:46.1

dear wife likes to wake up and come into the kitchen and find no dishes in the

0:50.6

sink. Now she these days she gets up before me. But when I was getting up

0:57.1

before her, I had to be very careful because if I used any cup or bowl or

1:01.9

anything and I put it in the sink and she walked into the kitchen, you were

1:05.9

going down. It was not a pleasant experience. Well, I'm John Fuller in the

1:10.1

studio with Aaron and Greg Smalley. They lead our marriage team and I know that

1:14.4

you two have counseled couples like me who have these irritations. We leverage

1:20.0

them sometimes just to spite our spouse. You've never seen it in your own

1:24.1

relationship though, right? No, we we have no irritations. The one that came to

1:28.9

my mind is you said that those I don't like large gathering parties, large

1:35.8

gathering of people that I really don't know. And there's a there's a party that

1:41.3

we often get invited to every year. I'm not gonna say where, when, just in

1:46.7

case, this is where you have a steep peak, right? Yeah, where it's just it's a

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