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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Wanting to Fix People

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We have a tendency to want to fix the people we love. While delighting in all their good traits, we think, “If only they didn’t have this one quirk...” In this episode, Fr. Mike Schmitz explains that love embraces the entire person just the way he or she is. ​He then gives some practical advice on how to do that.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ronan Farther, my ex-mits and this is Ascension Presents.

0:11.2

I think sometimes when it comes to people, we can have a tendency to treat people like

0:16.3

we treat our cars.

0:17.3

Here's what I mean.

0:18.3

When you find something wrong with your car, the good thing to do is try to fix it, right?

0:22.9

Yeah, but if you can't fix it, what do we do?

0:25.2

We say, well, I can't fix this car, so I'm going to replace it.

0:30.2

I'll get a new one.

0:31.2

I'll take the broken car and replace it for a new car that isn't broken.

0:36.9

If we can't replace it, because whatever reason we don't have enough money, we don't have

0:40.8

enough resources, we will ignore the problem.

0:44.6

And that's probably the right thing to do with it.

0:46.4

I'm just going to ignore this car.

0:48.9

The great thing is that works when it comes to cars.

0:51.3

The bad thing is that's not a great idea when it comes to people.

0:55.2

I see this happen a lot in married relationships, where here's one member of the couple and they

1:00.9

see something in the other person that just they don't like.

1:04.1

And so what they try to do is they just try to get in there and they just listen, just

1:08.6

let me fix you.

1:09.6

Just let me kind of get them work my way in.

1:12.4

I know exactly what you need.

1:15.1

I want to fix you.

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