The Dangers of a Controlling Spouse
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As you're getting to know your spouse, it's easy for things to come up that you weren't expecting. John talks with Greg and Erin about struggles they overcame in their marriage. They'll also provide hope for those who feel stuck in a controlling relationship.
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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 |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage |
| 0:41.1 | podcast. Reflecting back on our first years of marriage, Dean and I were trying |
| 0:47.5 | to get to know each other but it was hard. I'm not necessarily real strong when |
| 0:52.3 | it comes to thinking through processing and verbalizing emotions and she never |
| 0:57.1 | wanted to go to bed without resolving conflict. She just felt like that was |
| 1:00.6 | wrong. So it seemed like almost every night we were making conflicts so she could |
| 1:05.0 | resolve conflicts so we could go to bed and I would wake up thinking what was |
| 1:08.5 | that about? I'm John Fuller along with my focus on the family colleagues Aaron |
| 1:13.2 | and Greg Smolley and Aaron, you're chocolateing. Have you ever had to work |
| 1:16.8 | through anything like that in your marriage? Oh boy. In those early years it |
| 1:24.0 | sounds like what was going on in your house was going on in ours. That we had |
| 1:27.5 | lots of just conflict. We didn't know how to manage conflict. You know, we're |
| 1:31.6 | money. We didn't know how to manage finances together in law relationship, |
| 1:36.7 | family relationships. We had plenty to really spend a lot of time disagreeing on. |
| 1:42.6 | That was preparing us for this exact role in those early years as we really did |
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