Sarcasm: Helpful or Harmful to Your Marriage?
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever said something sarcastic to your spouse, only to have him or her be offended? The Smalley's share with John Fuller about how sarcasm has been a struggle in their relationship. Plus, Jim Daly speaks with Dr. Randy Schroder on why sarcasm is bad for your marriage. They'll also address how to leave your family of origin well so you can prioritize your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.8 | I've got a colleague who used to have a sign on his cubicle that said, |
| 0:24.4 | sarcasm is my spiritual gift. And I'm not sure this really is spiritual gift. I certainly am well |
| 0:30.8 | trained in sarcasm, but I have moments in my marriage where I wish I hadn't said it that way. |
| 0:38.0 | Maybe you can relate. We're going to talk about that today. Sarcasm, you're is not mine. |
| 0:43.1 | On the show, I'm John Fuller, joined by my focus colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smalley and Greg, |
| 0:48.4 | never, ever, ever have you had a misunderstanding, I'm sure, with Aaron because of some sarcastic |
| 0:54.1 | remark. Never, ever. Okay. And that was sarcastic. So let's go ahead and listen now to the clip. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, probably, Aaron, right? Wouldn't you say this is our biggest fight in the history of our 31 |
| 1:06.1 | years of marriage happened because of my sarcasm. And we were in China, we were adopting our youngest |
| 1:14.0 | daughter, high stress. There was just some things going on to where Annie was rejecting Aaron in |
| 1:21.3 | the beginning. So Aaron is dealing with a lot of just what is happening? What's going on? Why |
| 1:26.0 | am I being rejected? And so we were planning on going to the zoo that day. And so something at |
| 1:33.2 | breakfast happened and Aaron, you know, just I can't remember what you said. I said, oh, I remember. |
| 1:41.9 | This is unscripted and this is precious. I said, maybe we shouldn't go to the zoo. It seems like |
| 1:46.5 | everybody is really struggling today. Oh, yeah. And his sarcasm was, I don't think everyone is |
| 1:54.4 | struggling. I think you're struggling. That was beautiful. Which might have been truth or partial |
| 2:00.1 | truth. It felt like that was true. How I delivered it was very sarcastic. Unfortunately, all my body |
| 2:07.2 | language tone, all of it. On an earlier episode, we talked about the moment where you've been the |
| 2:12.1 | most angry you've ever been. That was it. And I simply stood up, pushed my chair in and I walked |
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