The Story You Tell Yourself

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When you're frustrated with your spouse, it's easy to tell yourself things about him or her that aren't true. We've all been guilty of that before. Greg, Erin and John explain how simple gestures of kindness can calm your emotions, even when you feel frustrated with your mate. Featuring Dr. Marcus Warner and Pastor Chris Coursey.

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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
0:28.3	today.
0:36.2	Sometimes when I get frustrated with my wife, Dina, I might think she doesn't
0:41.6	care. Well, truth is she does. And I think we've all been guilty of misapplied
0:49.0	thinking like that. I mean, we're going to talk today about how to change
0:53.6	your thinking. I'm John Fuller joined by Greg and Aaron Smolley. They hit up
0:57.7	our marriage department and you two have never struggled with this, right? I
1:02.4	mean, ever, never, never, ever. I remember one time I had been home with the kids.
1:07.8	It's just been a disastrous night. Aaron was out with some girls kind of
1:11.8	girls night out when she came back. I was so tired. I was so fed up. I was irritable
1:17.7	by this time that she came back. I'm sitting watching her enter and she walks
1:23.6	right by the sink and notices a sink full of dirty dishes. I forgot. And she
1:29.6	kind of yells out, what am I? The maid and just starts doing the dishes. Well,
1:35.6	I'm telling you that so triggered me because I was like, well, had you look the
1:39.8	other way, you would have seen the mountain of clothes that I folded from all
1:43.7	the laundry. And by the way, if you'd asked me how I was doing, I would have
1:47.1	told you how terrible your children are in how irritating they were the whole
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