Sharing Your Spouse's Burden
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In marriage, it's sometimes easy to get caught up in your activities. However, focusing too much on what needs to be done can leave you feeling alone and isolated. John, Greg and Erin discuss creative ways couples can help 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. |
| 0:35.4 | In marriage it's pretty easy for us to get stuck in our routines. You do this |
| 0:40.3 | activity but your spouse does that chore and sometimes our daily tasks leave us |
| 0:45.9 | more isolated than ever and if you're feeling lonely as a couple we want to |
| 0:49.6 | help. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Aaron Smolley and her husband Greg and |
| 0:54.2 | they lead our marriage team here at the ministry. Both of them talked with Jim |
| 0:58.6 | Daley and me about how they had to make some changes in their daily routines |
| 1:02.0 | during the beginning of the pandemic and here's the beginning of our |
| 1:05.8 | conversation. Let's talk about the definition of loneliness because you know |
| 1:10.5 | spouses can feel lonely for a variety of reasons and sometimes it's normal, |
| 1:15.6 | right? I mean people in marriage you're busy doing things raising the kids. Let's |
| 1:21.0 | take that one for example. You can feel somewhat lonely from your spouse |
| 1:24.6 | because there's so much on your plate. There's so many demands on you at the end |
| 1:27.8 | of the night. There's just not a lot of room you know to deal with that loneliness. |
| 1:33.4 | So define loneliness and make sure that people understand what's healthy and |
| 1:37.9 | what's unhealthy. You know Jim it's kind of just that emotional disconnect because |
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