The Danger of Assumptions
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A lack of communication can open the door to all kinds of unhealthy assumptions about your spouse. John, Greg, and Erin give some ideas for how to deal with negative assumptions in your relationship, and explain why reading the Bible can help you become a better spouse. Featuring Dr. Ron and Mrs. Jan Welch.
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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 |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.8 | can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.6 | marriage podcast. Well I remember a time when Dean and I were not communicating |
| 0:47.4 | well. It was it was it was really ugly was breaking all the rules that we've |
| 0:50.9 | talked about in previous episodes. We were tired. It was night and I said |
| 0:56.6 | something we were in bed trying to you know talk it through at night and she |
| 1:00.6 | got up and left. She didn't just leave the room. She left the house. She |
| 1:04.5 | went out the back door. She said I want to know what he said and I wish I could |
| 1:09.0 | remember but what did we that you know during those moments I don't recall what |
| 1:13.6 | was going through her mind but I was like what's wrong and I started to kind of |
| 1:18.0 | assume she's got a problem. It wasn't me. I mean I didn't do anything wrong. You're |
| 1:21.2 | perfect. There are so many things that happen when you assume that you're |
| 1:26.6 | in the right or you assume that that body language is saying this so we're |
| 1:31.4 | not unpacked that a little bit and talk about the dangers of assumptions and |
| 1:34.7 | miscommunications. I'm John Fuller and I'm joined in the studio by Dr. Greg |
| 1:39.5 | Smalley and his wife Aaron and I love the work you guys do for marriages. Greg |
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