“What Should I Do When My Spouse Gets Emotional?” Ted Lowe
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Your spouse is emotional. What should you do? What should you say? What if you don't agree? Author Ted Lowe knows changing how you think and respond in moments like this could change your marriage—and he's got ways to do it.
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Connect with Ted Lowe at tedlowe.com
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| 0:00.0 | I thought the empathy was just about being with someone during the tough stuff, but it's |
| 0:04.7 | also being there with them during the fun stuff. |
| 0:08.9 | It's rejoice with those, rejoice and cry with those to cry. |
| 0:11.8 | And one study said, how you celebrate with your spouse is more predictive of a strong relationship |
| 0:17.6 | than how you fight. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter |
| 0:33.0 | most. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott, and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:37.2 | You can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life app. |
| 0:41.8 | This is Family Life. |
| 0:42.8 | Today. |
| 0:46.4 | We were speaking at a weekend to remember marriage, get away this one weekend. |
| 0:59.4 | And as I was speaking, I was talking about how women like, we can help our husbands to |
| 1:05.6 | be better. |
| 1:06.6 | And then I asked this question, let me ask you this, do you feel like your husband is |
| 1:10.6 | happier since he married you? |
| 1:13.3 | And I said, is your husband better since he married you because we can have a pool on |
| 1:18.4 | our husband's lives that helps determine where he goes? |
| 1:22.1 | This was Hershey, Pennsylvania, I think, and I'm sitting in the back when you're saying |
| 1:26.4 | that. |
| 1:27.4 | And I'm like, yeah, this is awesome. |
| 1:28.4 | I hope every wife's hearing this. |
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