Serving Your Special Someone

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Serving your spouse is a wonderful thing. But what would your marriage look like if you served your mate without expecting anything in return? John, Greg and Erin share stories from their own experience, and give some tips for husbands on how to better care for their wives.

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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
0:35.6	can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash
0:40.4	marriage podcast. Some of the most meaningful moments in a marriage are when
0:45.3	you serve your spouse without expecting anything back. Now I'm not sure that
0:48.8	I've ever done that without expecting something. We assume there was a
0:53.2	time when Dina went off with her Bible study for the weekend and we had I
0:56.6	know four kids then and I held down the fort. I took care of the kids. I made
1:01.9	the meals. I kept the house reasonably clean and when she came home I knew she's
1:06.8	gonna be coming home that Sunday afternoon. I was ready. I was sitting on the
1:10.6	sofa. I saw her walk up and I was ready for her to walk in and say wow. Give you
1:15.5	all that praise and affirmation. She looked at me and said I'm sick. I'm going to
1:20.1	bed. Good night. And I just thought oh so I I think I was expecting something
1:26.2	I served without expecting something. I can't do that. Well I'm John Fuller
1:32.0	along with my friends and focus colleagues Dr. Greg and Aaron Smalley and okay
1:37.2	I mean is there ever a time Aaron when my spouse is really going to serve me
1:41.3	without expecting something in return. You know the thing is we don't know
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