Treating Your Spouse Like an Adult

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Working from home. Managing school from home. Raising little kids (especially under age three). And living on little sleep. This recipe is perfect for treating your spouse like a three-year-old. Pouting. Talking back. Ignoring. You know, just being emotionally immature with your spouse.

We get it. We're on little sleep. Have an infant at home. And date nights come at a premium these days. In this episode, we talk about how to treat your spouse like an adult. Or, in other words, how not to be emotionally immature with each other.

A few highlights:

* We talk about our own recent "disconnection." * How to talk to one another about expectations.* The ways we can accept influence from each other.* How to keep our relationship fresh.* Showing up for one another with weird schedules and new routines.

Show Notes:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	the freedom is that you don't need to be codependent to have a good marriage.
0:05.7	In fact, I can let him be angry and frustrated and be there for him, not fix it for him.
0:13.5	Him, I'm talking to you, I'm looking at you.
0:16.0	I don't have to fix it for you.
0:17.6	I don't have to change my behavior to make you happier or try to, you know,
0:24.7	make it so that like you don't feel the pain so much. I just need to be there for you when you're
0:30.2	feeling it. Well, and you're allowing me to be an adult in that moment so that I can actually
0:34.0	come to you when I do need you. You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:41.9	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:51.7	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
1:13.6	Today we're talking about marriage and it's a topic that we're hearing so many people are just, it's just hard right now with all the social isolation, spending so much time inside our four walls together and yet not connecting and feeling I think really distant.
1:14.8	There's a lot of families struggling and I think it's coming from the root of the marriage
1:23.4	and so we want to talk about that today.
1:25.2	The beautiful part is, I mean, if you got married early on and your greatest wish to your spouse was,
1:31.4	I just want to spend every waking moment with you, your wish is coming true.
1:37.0	You get to spend every waking moment with one another right now.
1:39.7	I mean, unless you are going to work and there is more people working, but for the most part,
1:43.6	there's a lot of people not working and it's getting harder and harder and
1:46.6	harder and you're spending more and more time together.
1:48.9	Yeah.
1:49.2	And a lot are working, but from home.
1:51.8	And they're trying to navigate parenting and controlling the chaos and marriage.
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