What Showing Respect Means
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Every husband longs to feel respected. Yet, how can wives practically show respect? John, Greg and Erin discuss insecurities men feel and how giving respect to your husband can improve your marriage. Featuring Dr. Juli Slattery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.8 | Every husband craves respect from his wife, but what exactly does that look like? |
| 0:26.3 | How can she show respect to him? I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg Smolley and his wife |
| 0:31.3 | Aaron, and Greg, it seems that a lot of us, despite Machismo front, behind the scenes, we struggle |
| 0:39.8 | with insecurities. I just talked to a friend, he's a pastor of a big church in the upper Midwest, |
| 0:46.4 | and he looked at me, he said, John, I have dealt with insecurity and a feeling of inadequacy my whole |
| 0:52.9 | life, and I thought, really, nobody would guess that. We don't talk about this. We don't, and it's |
| 0:59.6 | sad because we all struggle with it. I think every guy is going to struggle in moments or seasons, |
| 1:06.1 | feeling failed, maybe not good enough that they don't measure up and adequate. I think that |
| 1:13.4 | deep question that every guy really drives life as trying to answer is, do I have what it takes |
| 1:20.0 | to be successful? Rather that's, I remember as a young 20-year-old husband, you're worried, |
| 1:26.9 | will I be able to get a good job? Will I be able to provide my wife and my kids, the kind of lifestyle |
| 1:34.1 | that I'm hoping that will have. Even now, Aaron and I were on, I think doing an adventure, we're just |
| 1:43.7 | walking, talking, and just sharing what they're going, now I'm at an age to where I start wondering, |
| 1:50.6 | well, if something happens, and I have to find employment, am I at that age to where, now we'd |
| 1:58.4 | rather hire a younger guy. I don't think it matters how successful you literally are. I think |
| 2:06.0 | there's always insecurities. Even if it's more about relationship stuff, I've often regretted |
| 2:15.2 | just as a young dad, just the insecurities that I had and trying to make sure that I was working, |
| 2:22.8 | and providing, and maybe missed out on certain things. Even as an older dad, four kids, |
| 2:30.5 | daughters, 28, with my 28-year-old in particular, I've gone to her before to say, hey, I'm so sorry, |
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