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Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

What Happy Couples Know, Part 3 - “Sometimes You Have to Throw Things”

Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

Andy Stanley

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As long as you think your partner owes you something, your marriage will be all about keeping score. How do you prevent your relationship from devolving into transactions and negotiations?

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome to your move I'm Andy Stanley so you're in a relationship and

0:04.8

things are not going well.

0:06.4

It's not what you hope for, it's not what you dreamed of.

0:09.2

So what do you do?

0:10.2

Well sometimes you just gotta throw things.

0:12.4

That's right you gotta throw things.

0:13.7

Stick around and we'll talk about it right here on your moon.

0:22.2

So we are in part three of what do happy couples know and so the question is what do happy

0:26.3

couples know and here's what happy couples know.

0:28.8

But over time and sometimes initially but often times eventually that our hopes, dreams

0:32.8

and desires become expectations.

0:36.2

And they become expectations when we take our hopes, dreams and desires which seem so

0:40.6

light and so happy and so tangible and so easily fulfilled and we hand them to somebody

0:47.3

else and it feels like that.

0:50.0

And then what was meant to be enjoyable becomes transactional.

0:55.4

And when the relationship becomes transactional it's not as much fun anymore because everybody's

1:01.2

negotiating and the problem with transactional is the best negotiator in the relationship

1:06.4

always wins because it's a negotiation.

1:09.3

So the best negotiator continues to win.

1:11.7

He always wins, she always wins.

1:13.1

I had my plan, I knew exactly what I was going to say, I had my approach all planned out

1:17.7

and she won again, he won again.

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