The Great Marriage Killer

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Most relationships start out well, but then a certain something comes along and cracks the foundation. If left alone, it will eventually poison the entire marriage. What is it? Well, you’ll have to watch/listen to find out!You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there!This ministry is entirely listener supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner

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0:00.0	So I was thinking recently and I was considering what is the most damaging thing to a relationship.
0:08.8	We think about couples that we've known closely, friends, family.
0:13.9	They've been in otherwise stable marriages.
0:17.6	They've had families and then something happens along the way.
0:20.8	It starts to go sideways.
0:22.9	And I thought, what is that?
0:24.1	What is that?
0:24.6	And I thought to myself, it's almost like a sense of entitlement because what happens in
0:29.1	a lot of couples is, and again, aside from any big kind of catastrophic betrayal or breaking
0:36.2	of trust, the thing that gets subtly underneath the skin of a couple's marriage is usually
0:42.5	going to be some level of entitlement.
0:46.3	You are not, I'm worth more than you're able to give me.
0:50.5	You're not the wife that I deserve.
0:52.9	Not the wife that I should have.
0:54.0	I deserve happiness.
0:55.8	I deserve to feel love.
0:57.7	I deserve all these things.
0:58.9	You are not giving me.
0:59.9	And I'm entitled to it.
1:00.9	And I thought, well, that is just so insidious.
1:03.1	And that is, I thought to myself, that is one of the greatest enemies of marriage.
1:07.0	And I thought, well, actually entitlement is a symptom, right?
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