Roadblocks to Effective Communication
Focus on Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you think you have your spouse all figured out? The truth is, there's always something new to learn. Ryan Frederick and Jim Daly encourage husbands to work through communication barriers to better understand their wives. Plus, Erin Smalley talks about the right ways to give honest feedback to your spouse, for the sake of improving your relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new |
| 0:05.6 | documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose |
| 0:11.1 | courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how |
| 0:17.4 | you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration. |
| 0:22.4 | Sign up at truthrising.com. |
| 0:24.8 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.8 | If you've been married to your spouse for decades, you might be tempted to think you've got your |
| 0:40.1 | mate figured out. But one of the beauties of marriage is there's always something new to learn about each |
| 0:46.8 | other. And if you just wait, you'll find out. There's more. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg |
| 0:52.9 | Smalley and his wife, Aaron, who lead our |
| 0:54.7 | focus on the family marriage team. And we're going to listen now to a clip featuring Ryan Frederick. |
| 1:00.3 | He was on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and he and his wife lead a ministry called |
| 1:05.1 | Fierce Marriage. They're all about diving in and being intentional to have a strong marriage. |
| 1:11.5 | And the conversation is based on a book Ryan wrote called How a Husband Speaks. |
| 1:16.5 | You also talk about couples having a shared language. |
| 1:20.1 | That sounds romantic and poetic. |
| 1:22.0 | What does it mean? |
| 1:23.5 | Shared language. |
| 1:24.5 | Hey, Gene, I want some lunch with me? |
| 1:26.4 | You want to eat a meatball sandwich? |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah, I mean, that can go two ways, right? We talk about familiarity. Well, you can be familiar |
| 1:34.3 | in a sense that it's causing isolation in your marriage. Or you can have a familiarity where you can |
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