Shake Out the Selfishness
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you're doing all the work in your marriage, but your spouse isn't giving anything back? The truth is, we've all been selfish at some point. Erin, Greg and John describe how they've worked through selfishness in their own marriages.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction and she feared the worst. |
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| 0:19.8 | Elissa's marriage was transformed so much so that she began sharing our resources with many other |
| 0:26.0 | hurting couples. |
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| 1:12.0 | Imagine a situation where you... slash marriage to serve them to love them but you never get any recognition. |
| 1:25.0 | After a while you might start to think well what about me? I'm getting tired of this. |
| 1:29.5 | In fact I talked to somebody who said 20 years I've been a good Christian husband and it's |
| 1:33.8 | not gotten me anywhere so it's time for me to start thinking about me. Well I'm John |
| 1:38.4 | Fuller and I'm along with Greg Nere and Smalley they lead our marriage |
| 1:42.4 | department here at |
| 1:43.3 | focus on the family. You two are looking at each other right now. So Erin, what about me? |
| 1:48.3 | What about me? Yeah. It's interesting because it there was something going on in our relationship that I didn't it bothered me and it bothered me more recently because our seasons have changed and I'm working a little bit more |
| 2:02.0 | As I see couples I work a couple of evenings have changed and I'm working a little bit more. |
| 2:03.0 | As I see couples I work a couple evenings a week and I would come home from work, you know, say |
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