Two Needs Wives Have
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
One of the best gifts a husband can give his wife is to understand what she needs. John talks with Erin about how much it means when a wife feels valued and protected by her husband. Featuring Dr. Juli Slattery.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the best gifts I can give my wife is to understand what she needs for me and then |
| 0:09.7 | kind of deliver and there was a time when Dina was sharing with me about some of her friends |
| 0:14.2 | and I was like, well, what do I care about their drama? |
| 0:17.4 | You'll get it. |
| 0:18.4 | Okay. |
| 0:19.4 | You caught it right away. |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.4 | Give me a bigger show. |
| 0:22.4 | Would you please? |
| 0:23.4 | And she looked at me and said, but they're my friends. |
| 0:25.8 | I care about them and the light bulb went on after 35 plus years of marriage. |
| 0:29.9 | I understood. |
| 0:30.9 | She needs me to enter into their drama because it's important to her. |
| 0:35.5 | Invest in what matters. |
| 0:37.1 | Exactly. |
| 0:38.1 | I've learned to ask follow-up questions about that person or this prayer point or what's |
| 0:42.5 | going on. |
| 0:43.7 | I think that's a need she has. |
| 0:45.1 | I think I can deliver that pretty good and it makes us feel connected. |
| 0:49.0 | It's the same thing when either my wife, Erin or my daughter is sharing their dream that |
| 0:55.3 | they had from the night before. |
| 0:57.0 | It's just happened this morning to where both of them, as I have like a little half |
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