The Goal for Every Married Couple
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Learning how to bless your spouse is a wonderful thing. But what if you served him or her without expecting anything in return? John and the Smalleys discuss how to maintain a servant's heart through the changing seasons of marriage. Featuring Gary Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody around us this summer, I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that there's a lot of folks in their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriage fall apart and that scared us. |
| 0:12.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:15.0 | He wanted something better for he and his wife. |
| 0:18.0 | That's when they found our podcast online and began listening almost every day. |
| 0:23.0 | Focus on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better. |
| 0:43.7 | Working together, we can give families hope. |
| 0:46.7 | Will you join our marriage building team? |
| 0:48.9 | Please call 800 the letter A and the word family, or you can donate at focus on the family |
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| 0:59.2 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | You know in every season of marriage got slash marriage |
| 1:14.8 | God gives you opportunities to bless your spouse and you should do so even without |
| 1:19.5 | expecting anything in return. Now that may sound difficult but with God's help, it's possible and it really |
| 1:26.1 | is something you should be striving for. I'm John Fuller joined by the couple who runs |
| 1:31.2 | our marriage department here at Focus on the family, Greg and Aaron Smalley and |
| 1:35.6 | Greg why is it dangerous for us to come into marriage expecting |
| 1:41.0 | certain things for my spouse without just giving freely. |
| 1:45.0 | The problem is, is what happens when you don't feel you're getting what you deserve or what you want. |
| 1:52.0 | So if my whole goal is that Aaron needs to meet my needs and that |
| 1:58.0 | creates all kinds of expectations. So what happens when she as a human when she's not doing that or maybe there's something going on in her life and she's not available maybe she's exhausted has nothing to give so if my my definition of a good healthy strong marriage is that she's |
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