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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Taking the Chance to Flirt

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It can be easy to neglect romance when life gets busy. John talks with the Smalley's about how they've learned to be playful and flirtatious. Also, Jim Daly speaks with Lisa Jacobson and Phylicia Masonheimer about a concept they call, "biblical flirtation," that you can apply to your relationship.

 

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0:00.0

Sometimes when it gets really, really busy, you neglect the things like date nights and

0:11.5

romance and even kind-caring words but it's good to remember

0:15.3

that your spouse is who you wanted to marry and you need to embrace having all of the good things, including romance, in your marriage.

0:25.0

I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleagues, Dr. Greg Smalley and Aaron Smalley, and I wonder which

0:31.5

of the two of you is more flirtatious and fun in the relationship.

0:35.6

You know I think that I would have probably said me but I'm telling you as of I know Aaron's just see the look.

0:45.0

I was waiting for his answer.

0:47.0

Wait, but let me finish what I was going to say.

0:50.0

I was going to say, I feel like we do that pretty evenly now as far as flirtiness because I think we do a lot of playful teasing around our physical relationship or just our affection.

1:07.0

You know, we just the other day, I noticed that our 16 year old daughter, she said something

1:12.4

and Aaron like just grabs me and starts kissing me,

1:17.0

kind of mocking our 16-year-old who...

1:19.2

And I'm sure Annie was getting all bad and embarrassed.

1:22.8

Yeah, but even I've noticed that Aaron,

1:27.1

when our kids are just saying something,

1:29.8

we have older kids, so, you know,

1:31.4

but there's a lot of innuendo that you'll throw out there

1:35.3

that they catch up on they're like oh gross and there's just I I love that you know I

1:41.9

think I'm probably more to initiate like a physical touch you know but but I've just noticed lately it seems like that you've been doing what I think is a fantastic job of just this more this little

1:55.8

playful teasing especially around sex so I love that Aaron maybe I would pick her now

2:01.9

is the 31irty one.

2:03.0

I was going to say...

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