Picking the Right Fights
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When you and your spouse run into conflict, the key to success is knowing which battles to fight and which ones to avoid. John, Greg and Erin offer some helpful ideas for working through conflict successfully with your spouse, and how to rely on God's strength as you face challenges together.
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| 0:00.0 | After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next. |
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| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.1 | In most marriages there is conflict. slash marriage |
| 1:14.0 | there is conflict that happens from time to time in some marriages it's like all the time but the key is knowing what the battles are in which ones are the right ones to fight and how to let go. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. |
| 1:29.7 | They're in charge of our marriage team here at Focus on the Family and Aaron there are some |
| 1:35.2 | battles that you've learned aren't important enough to really fight over. |
| 1:39.4 | So what do you what's an example? Well often couples say we fight about nothing |
| 1:44.7 | and the research back set up. |
| 1:46.0 | Just yesterday, we had an incident. |
| 1:49.3 | I was trying to get ready to get out the door |
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