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Fierce Marriage

What if My Spouse Let's Themself Go? Is it Shallow to Care About How My Spouse Looks?

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Is it shallow to care about how your spouse looks? Our short answer would be no, but there is so much more depth to this question. Join us as we unpack what this might look like in your own marriage and turn to the Word for some wisdom.New communication books: https://speak.fiercemarriage.comPrayer books: https://40prayers.comTo learn more about becoming a Christian, visit: https://thenewsisgood.comThis ministry is entirely listener-supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner Good news! You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there!

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0:00.0

All right, if you're easily offended, this may not be the episode for you.

0:03.4

Not that we intend to offend, but sometimes topics like these can be a bit like kicking a

0:09.1

hornet's nest.

0:10.1

Yes.

0:11.1

And so certainly we're not trying to do that, but here we go. So we're asking the question, what if your spouse has let themselves go?

0:19.0

What does that mean? Well, have they stopped caring about their physical appearance? Have they

0:24.2

stopped caring about their health? Maybe you married a strapping young man.

0:28.4

He's no longer strapping. And some of the stuff, you know, as you you age you're going to change physically right

0:35.7

but there are I think factors that the Lord has given into our care yes and if we stop caring for those things we can't expect good things to happen.

0:47.2

But what are the questions to be asked around that? Is it a sin to let yourself go? Is it a sin to not care about what you look like?

0:55.2

Yeah, well if you're curious about that and you want to know our perspective and

0:59.6

perhaps even what God's word might say about that topic and as it pertains to your marriage

1:05.1

then you're in the right place and we'll see you on the other side.

1:11.6

Hello hello and welcome friends. I'm Ryan, this is my lovely wife Selina. We are The

1:16.6

Fredericks. This is the Fierce Merit Podcast. Thank you for joining us. If your

1:20.2

parents, check out the Fierce Parenting Podcast.

1:23.2

That should prove instructive.

1:25.4

We hope so anyway.

1:26.2

Speaking of parenting, if you can't see us,

1:28.9

if you're listening, we do have Sunny with us today.

1:31.1

So please bear with us if there's extra noise. We love having our baby with us if there's extra noise.

1:33.0

We love having our baby with us.

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