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🗓️ 11 November 2025
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It's common for you and your spouse to have different styles for trying to resolve conflict. Jim Daly joins Dr. Bob Paul and Tara Lalonde, who both open up about times they worked through conflict with their spouses. Then, John Fuller asks Erin and Dr. Greg Smalley how you can make things right with your mate after a bad argument.
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| 0:30.8 | So hey, this is John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley. |
| 0:38.2 | And as we were getting ready for this episode, it occurred to me way back in the beginning. |
| 0:42.7 | We had this wrong sense of what the scripture says when Paul writes, |
| 0:47.3 | don't let the sun go down on your anger. |
| 0:49.7 | And so my dear bride thought it was really important to solve every issue before we went to bed, |
| 0:56.6 | which doesn't work for me very well. |
| 0:59.2 | You drink this energy drink. |
| 1:01.0 | I need space to kind of process, and she'd be saying, but you and we and I would be drifting off, |
| 1:14.0 | looking like a little kid in a car seat, stuck. |
| 1:15.6 | Don't do that. |
| 1:21.6 | That's kind of the point of this episode is have some boundaries, respect each other, and process conflict in an appropriate way that's actually going to benefit everybody. |
| 1:25.2 | We're going to turn now to a conversation that Jim Daly had with Dr. Bob Paul and Tara Lalonde. |
| 1:31.1 | They work with our Hope Restored Ministry and are great and very insightful. |
| 1:35.4 | Bob shared very openly with Jim about how he and his wife struggled with conflict resolution and boundaries. |
| 1:43.8 | You have a story about the links that Jenny, your wife, went to, |
| 1:46.7 | in setting boundaries with your early marriage |
| 1:50.7 | because you were not cooperating appropriately. |
| 1:54.7 | What happened in that story? |
| 1:56.2 | This is the most commonly told story in our organization. |
| 1:59.3 | I love this story. I shared it with |
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