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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

The Male & Female Brains

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Men and women tend to respond to stress and situations very differently. Jim Daly and Gary Thomas address the differences in brain chemistry between husbands and wives. Then, John and the Smalley's discuss what a husband can do if a wife keeps bringing up the same problem in conversations.

 

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

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0:12.4

We'll go to this thing, but this is it.

0:14.7

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0:16.3

What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage.

0:23.3

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0:30.6

Well, I don't know about you, but sometimes it feels like my wife and I are not speaking even close to the same language.

0:42.4

We're not even on the same planet.

0:44.5

And it's true that God designed us to be different.

0:47.7

And I love the difference most of the time.

0:50.9

And we're going to discuss some of those differences today.

0:53.9

I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage team here at the time. And we're going to discuss some of those differences today. I'm John Fuller,

0:54.7

along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who lead the marriage team here at the ministry. Jim Daly

0:59.4

spoke with Gary Thomas. He's one of my favorite authors and speakers. And Gary talked about

1:05.0

the ways that were wired differently as men and women. Gary, I want to kind of keep going a little deeper in this brain chemistry area because

1:14.9

God's created us and it's in that context.

1:17.3

Sometimes we put at war science and biblical truth.

1:21.5

I don't think they're at war, actually.

1:23.5

I think over time, science continues to prove in this material world that the scripture is accurate.

1:29.3

In that context, when you look at the brain science that you are alluding to, I found it fascinating in that research that male brains have less serotonin than female brains.

1:40.9

And that serotonin is that calming feature.

1:46.8

So that's why women, I think, can sit and talk calmly about issues. They don't need to resolve it. But men, we get antsy. We want to fix it.

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