Stay Inside the 9s
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
One of the worst things you can do is try to have a serious conversation with your spouse when one or both of you is tired. It might be that you need to set some rules for when you discuss heavy topics. John, Greg and Erin share how setting boundaries on when to have difficult conversations is beneficial to a marriage. Featuring Dr. Randy Schroeder.
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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 |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.8 | It's fairly common for an early bird to marry a night owl, but if you're trying |
| 0:41.8 | to have a serious conversation when one or both of you is tired, a |
| 0:45.7 | chances are there could be an argument. I'm John Filler, along with Greg and |
| 0:49.7 | Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage team here. And Greg, I'm sure you've |
| 0:53.0 | never known anybody that had this kind of biological clock rhythm thing that |
| 0:59.8 | wasn't in sync. Oh, yeah. That's never happened. Right. Right. I mean, I know a |
| 1:04.9 | woman who like eight or nine o'clock goes to bed and she's don't talk to |
| 1:09.1 | Dina after that. But that that's just me. And man, when we're tired, that can |
| 1:14.1 | create a whole lot of conflicts. You know, I love that that acronym HALT |
| 1:18.6 | Hungry, angry, lonely, tired is things to think about before we get into |
| 1:24.4 | series discussions. So if I'm hungry, angry, tired, or lonely, okay? So HALT. Yeah, |
| 1:31.2 | kind of reverse that, but HALT. It's a great thing to remember. Aaron's, I think, |
| 1:35.7 | for her birthday in March, we have been both been running really hard. I was |
| 1:42.2 | exhausted, she was exhausted, but over the weekend, I cooked dinner for everybody |
| 1:47.1 | kind of did a special meal for her. And the whole family was there. And so right |
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