The Difference God Makes in Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
You can try your best, but some things in marriage are only doable with God's help. Without His influence, your efforts to be kind to your mate will only go so far. John, Greg and Erin discuss how God's love helps them to talk kindly to their spouse. Featuring Dr. David Clarke.
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| 1:12.0 | How you talk to your spouse reflects what's slash marriage and Aaron Smalley and Aaron why is it so important to talk kindly to my spouse? |
| 1:24.8 | This is kind of a rhetorical question but help us understand. |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah well because often when we are in that season maybe of being frustrated and angry and irritable and defensive sometimes we don't even |
| 1:36.1 | realize it but our spouse certainly does and what I see consistently with couples is that when one tries to bring it up to say, |
| 1:43.6 | hey, I'm not feeling safe here. |
| 1:46.1 | Like I don't feel like I can really share who I am |
| 1:48.8 | or bring up issues because the reaction is so intense that then the reaction is worse and it becomes |
| 1:56.2 | tenfold like what are you talking about I'm not irritable I'm not angry and so I'm just |
| 2:00.8 | encouraging as these conversations happen between you and your spouse here what your spouse is saying. |
| 2:07.6 | If you are in a season where there's stress or maybe there's conflict, take a look at yourself from both perspectives because anger and |
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