What Your Spouse is Not
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Your spouse might be amazing, but he or she cannot meet every expectation you have. In some way, he or she will fall short. John, Greg and Erin discuss how to let go of bad expectations in your marriage.
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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. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.8 | can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage |
| 0:41.3 | podcast. We might have heard that famous phrase from the movie Jeremy |
| 0:47.5 | Guyer. You complete me and it sounds so good and it's so not true no matter |
| 0:55.0 | how amazing your spouse is. He or she is never gonna help you be perfect and |
| 1:01.0 | complete. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron Smalley. |
| 1:05.8 | They're in charge of our marriage team here and we're gonna hear a |
| 1:08.6 | conversation now that Greg had with Dr. Bob Paul who helps run our hope |
| 1:13.2 | restored marriage intensive program. Together Greg and Bob talked with Jim |
| 1:18.0 | Daley in me about a book they wrote called Nine Lies that will destroy your |
| 1:22.2 | marriage and they previously discussed the first four things like happiness, |
| 1:27.4 | love, and feeling complete. Co-dependency I want a definition of that and then |
| 1:32.6 | line number five is you must meet each other's needs now generally that seems |
| 1:39.0 | pretty reasonable but maybe not every need that would be the issue but talk |
| 1:43.5 | about codependency what's the definition of that and then how does line number |
| 1:47.1 | five apply? Co-dependency really as we look at it now I know we throw around |
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