Saving Your Marriage from Divorce, Part 3
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Every marriage problem can be traced back to one word: selfishness. If not dealt with properly, your relationship will crumble. Greg and John talk about how you can let go of selfishness and give ideas for being a blessing to your spouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
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| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | If you treat your spouse with a selfish attitude that's kind of like |
| 0:46.4 | withdrawing too much money from your account and expecting everything to |
| 0:49.6 | work out just fine there will be a cost and it's going to be greater than you think at the moment. |
| 0:55.0 | This is John Fuller. I'm joined by my colleague Dr. Greg Smalley and we're going to hear a conversation |
| 1:00.3 | Jim Dalyhead with Dr. David Clark who is passionate about helping |
| 1:05.5 | marriages stay together and together they talked about why marriages can lose |
| 1:10.1 | their purpose over time and how you can avoid doing that. |
| 1:14.0 | Let me ask you this. You believe the breakdown of most marriages is a breakdown in |
| 1:18.0 | communication. We see that here at Focus. It sounds so simple. I was talking to Jean the other night. We were talking about how many generations do we have to go through? |
| 1:27.0 | You know, when will we say, oh, it's communication? Because we've been talking about it for like 2,000 years. |
| 1:33.8 | You know that we need to communicate better. |
| 1:35.4 | We need to love and respect each other. |
| 1:38.3 | Why is this so hard to do if it's so obvious? You know nobody knows how when you're dating and even early |
| 1:46.5 | a marriage you think you know how you think you're having deep |
| 1:49.1 | conversations in fact you are not because you don't know how. Every parent listening should |
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