Responding to the Gottman's 4 Horsemen of the Relationship Apocalypse

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Gottman Institute identified "The 4 Horseman of the Apocolypse", which can supposedly predict the end of a relationship. We shed some biblical light on these ideas as well as some helpful antidotes. We pray it blesses you!Master marital communication: https://speak.fiercemarriage.comTake the 31-Day Pursuit Challenge: https://31daypursuit.comPray for your spouse with intention: https://40prayers.comTo learn more about becoming a Christian, visit: https://thenewsisgood.comThis ministry is entirely listener-supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner Good news! You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there!

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0:00.0	So when you're dealing with marriage, you're dealing with relationships, you can't do so merely on empiricist terms,
0:10.1	meaning that you can't just use science to say, here's what scientifically works for relationship and here's what doesn't.
0:16.0	Here's the data. Here's the case study.
0:18.0	Right.
0:18.3	Therefore, here's our recommendation.
0:20.3	Right.
0:21.6	However, I do believe that there are times when making, I guess, measured observations,
0:28.6	asking carefully crafted questions and then observing with the results, the steady,
0:35.6	kind of steady resolve, if you will, that that can shed light on maybe themes and areas of relationships that tend in our culture to be problematic for marriage.
0:46.3	And that is exactly what we're going to look at today. There's the Gottmans, who you might know that name, caveats, they are not Christian. They, and by all measure that I can tell,
0:59.1	they are godless. And they are, and so their research reflects that. However, I want to talk
1:06.4	through some of their research, namely the Four Horsemen of Relationships. Yeah, it's probably their
1:10.4	most popular article. Yeah, it's probably their most popular article.
1:11.9	Yeah, it's one of their most popular things.
1:14.0	And I want to look at it from a biblical perspective and say, okay, they're using this
1:18.0	word.
1:18.3	What is a biblical concept for that?
1:20.4	Then we can give some verses that illustrate maybe how to respond in light of those
1:25.1	horsemen.
1:25.7	So those horsemen don't have to be the apocalypse of your marriage. All right. So we're going to do that on the other side.
1:37.3	Selina, you're a big fan of horses. Big fan.
1:43.0	You should give us the various breeds that each one of these horsemen.
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