Rules for Confrontation
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Every married couple has to have difficult conversations from time to time. In those moments, it's important to choose your words carefully and not use them carelessly. John, Greg and Erin discuss the damage that can be done by careless words and explain how tough conversations can actually benefit your marriage. Featuring Milan and Kay Yerkovich.
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| 1:12.0 | When you're having a difficult conversation with your spouse, one word that you say can mean the difference |
| 1:18.2 | between calming him or her down or setting off a firestorm. I'm John Fuller along with my focus |
| 1:25.3 | colleagues Greg and Aaron Smalley and Aaron I know you've counseled a lot of |
| 1:29.6 | couples how have you seen careless words? Any illustrations come to mind? |
| 1:35.0 | Well, there's one for our own marriage. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh! |
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| 1:40.0 | It's funny before when we were talking through this prepping for this. |
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