Talking About Hard Things in Marriage

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Difficult conversations in marriage are inevitable. Unless you're avoiding them. But that's a recipe for not living fully alive together. Whether it's parenting, sex, holidays, work schedules, or in-laws, all couples deal with "an elephant in the room."

How can we best show up in these conversations? In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about how to talk about hard things in marriage. Some of the highlights are:

* Why it's important to start a hard conversation with connection as your motive, not expectation.* How to set the tone in your conversations.* How to respond to your spouse without flipping your lid.* Leading with a team approach and an "us against the world" attitude with your spouse.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:07.1	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:16.0	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:18.1	We are so excited that you've joined us today. We are
0:22.1	actually moving into February, which is, you know, everybody calls it Love Month. It's one of
0:28.2	those things that we do in the West to get people to buy more candy and more cards and spend
0:34.1	more money and eat more sugar. Right, because we haven't had enough sugar between
0:37.5	Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's. It's like, you know what, we should add
0:44.2	another sugar holiday. No wonder, no wonder it's flu and cold season in the winter. Did I say this
0:49.6	on the podcast before? I don't know, but it's, I saw this, was it a meme? Something like that.
0:54.6	Something the Internet's told me.
0:56.5	And it was like, why do we have, you know, we have a candy, a candy holiday followed by a pie
1:02.0	holiday, followed by a cookie and treats holiday.
1:04.8	And for some reason, we call it cold and flu season when we should just call it sugar
1:08.7	poisoning.
1:10.8	Wow. Or we should call it, I think their poisoning wow or we should call it i think their
1:13.0	their line was we should call it what it really is sugar poisoning i was like oh oh oh oh but it's true
1:20.0	it is true and we're not here to give health advice but um eat your as i have like
1:26.4	eat your oranges and your apples and your grapes and your like natural sugars
1:31.1	is that what you're natural sugars that's right don't eat normal sugars eat natural sugars we really
1:35.9	have been trying okay we've actually been trying a few things in this house oh which hey in fact
1:40.6	we have to pause a little bit of this episode because i've exactly like 19 minutes until my sourdough bread comes out of the oven.
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