Rules for Marriage Communication
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Just like a professional sport needs rules to be played well, your marriage needs boundaries for effective communication. John talks with the Smalleys about rules they have in their own marriage for communicating with each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.8 | can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.6 | marriage podcast. When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s there was a show on |
| 0:47.2 | the weekends ABC sports and the line was the thrill of victory and agony of defeat. |
| 0:55.0 | That's an apropos illustration of what marriage is all about. There are |
| 1:01.0 | victorious moments and agonizing moments of defeat especially when it comes to |
| 1:06.0 | communication and we're gonna continue talking about ways to really engage |
| 1:10.4 | well with your spouse in communication. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Erin |
| 1:15.7 | Smolley and they run our marriage team here. Now there are some rules and |
| 1:20.5 | guidelines for any sport. So carrying the analogy forward, Erin, what's what |
| 1:25.8 | are some rules for engaging in communication and marriage? Well, there's there's |
| 1:30.8 | many many many complex and it's all up to the woman, right? Yeah, I don't know |
| 1:36.1 | about that. I know for Greg and I we have some that are personal to us that we |
| 1:40.8 | don't work through conflict on text and we actually teach our kids that as well |
| 1:45.4 | that if you have an issue with someone don't text about it. Don't post it on |
| 1:48.8 | social media, talk to them either if it's only on the phone great or in person |
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