The Battle for Control and Dominance

MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

XO Marriage

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Marriage Day podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife Karen. We're so glad that you're joining us. We're talking today about dominance, disarming, destructive dominance. The bigger subject is intimacy and how to enjoy intimacy in marriage. But to enjoy intimacy in marriage, Karen, you have to deal with
0:21.2	dominance. And you were very dominant early in our marriage. I know. I controlled you and beat you
0:26.3	down. No, I was a dominant one early in our marriage. Now, she's a dominant one today. And I'm suffering.
0:32.6	But anyway, we're going to be talking about that in the teaching. So let me read, this is a question
0:37.3	from one of our listeners, Karen, to you.
0:39.9	I am more confrontational, but my husband sometimes resents it.
0:44.2	How do I convince him I don't want to be the bad guy?
0:48.4	She's more confrontational.
0:49.7	Yeah, I'm just sitting there thinking about that question.
0:52.7	I think it's a great question.
0:53.8	I think that a lot of couples, this is the way it is.
0:58.0	Probably, I'm wondering what she means by confrontational.
1:00.0	Is she accusing?
1:02.0	Is it?
1:03.0	Well, I think that's the issue.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	And so I would just back off on how you ask questions and how you communicate.
1:10.0	You know, come into it like you would your best friend.
1:12.6	What if your girlfriend was sitting in the room?
1:14.6	And you're talking to your girlfriend.
1:15.6	You talked to her that way.
1:17.6	And so I would just maybe take a step back and consider maybe the way you are talking
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