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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Repeat Back Your Spouse’s Interests

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When your spouse shows genuine interest in something you enjoy, it's like good medicine for the heart. Bill and Pam Farrel talk with Jim Daly about how they've encouraged couples to express curiosity in something your mate likes doing. Also, John and the Smalley's cover a common communication struggle many husbands deal with in marriage.

 

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0:00.0

For decades we've helped Tom's family with parenting, adoption, and what it means to be pro-life.

0:09.0

It's just typical of the way focus on the family has worked over the years. They just

0:14.5

provide very practical, publicly based things that help people to make the right

0:20.9

choice and then support people in ways that really are necessary.

0:25.2

That's why Tom and his wife give monthly to encourage and equip other families.

0:30.6

Focus on the families out in the front lines of things that you know are necessary in the culture

0:35.2

and in the community and we as Christians are called to support God's work in that way.

0:40.7

It's just a blessing to us to be a part of it.

0:43.0

I'm Jim Daly. I'm inviting you to give monthly so that together we can save even more families.

0:50.0

Join our Friends of Focus on the Family team by calling 800 a family or donate at

0:56.0

Focus on the family.com slash family. Do you and

1:05.0

and your spouse have separate hobbies and separate interests?

1:09.0

Do you ever like join each other in those pursuits of hobbies.

1:14.0

Well, I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron.

1:18.0

They head up the Focus Marriage Department and Aaron, I wonder how it's helped your relationship

1:22.0

when you've tried to show interest in

1:24.1

things that Greg likes. It's so weird there are no examples that you can come up with.

1:28.6

Isn't that sad? Are you sad for me right now? You know, one of my favorite memories of this

1:34.8

is Greg loves to go to this alpine lake and fish.

1:40.9

And granted, it is a hike, it's a hall up to this lake.

1:45.0

Which means hardly anybody's going to be there.

1:47.0

Right, right.

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