What We Long For—Connection
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Sadly, many married couples report feeling lonely. Sometimes, it might even take a third-party to help you reconnect. John and Greg share how counseling can help you bridge a gap of loneliness between you and your spouse. Featuring Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. |
| 0:35.4 | When you got married you probably assumed that any loneliness you had would be |
| 0:40.6 | gone because now I'm married but sadly many many couples feel lonely today. |
| 0:46.6 | They're separated, they're isolated and if that's you I'm so glad you've |
| 0:50.5 | tuned in. I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleague Dr. Greg Smolley and |
| 0:54.9 | Greg there are ways that as men and women we desire intimacy a little bit |
| 1:00.2 | differently. Generally speaking, is that right? Yeah yeah like when I think |
| 1:04.5 | about as a as a man typically men love to do things together with their wife. |
| 1:11.4 | That's that's how we define intimacy that that activity. I love it when Erin sits |
| 1:17.4 | down and watches a football game with me or maybe we watch a movie we go for a |
| 1:21.4 | walk just that kind of activity that that's how we define intimacy. I think |
| 1:26.8 | for a lot of women they define intimacy Erin talks about this my wife going |
| 1:32.8 | deep in a conversation. So it's really this idea of getting to know her and being |
| 1:38.4 | known it's just the more we talk and go deeper and talk about emotions and |
| 1:44.1 | inner life and just what's going on. Oh she will just I can just she feels |
| 1:48.3 | so connected. Right. Well we do have some differences and we do want to help |
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