What Your Spouse Really Needs

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We all have things we want from our spouse. But there's an important distinction between a need and a desire. John, Greg and Erin will explain what true needs are in 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
0:35.6	can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage
0:41.1	podcast. Well we all have things that we want from our spouse but there's a big
0:46.4	difference between a desire and a need and we're gonna unpack that a little bit
0:51.5	today. I'm John Fuller along with professional marriage counselors and the
0:56.9	folks that run the marriage department here at focusonthefamily Greg and Erin
1:00.6	Smolley and Erin how do you define the difference between a desire and a need?
1:06.2	You know there's there is a difference and often we get that confused and need
1:10.9	something that you cannot survive without. I mean I need oxygen. I need food
1:17.0	versus a desire is something that helps me to feel loved. It's something that I
1:21.4	want. It's a preference. It's something I like and you know if we have a
1:27.7	desire and we put that out to our spouse and you know I desire Greg for you to
1:35.4	hold my hand and to sit next to me and watch homework movies. A desire can
1:41.6	always be met with a no. That no I can't do that otherwise it is a demand. So
1:47.2	it's just differentiating between those things. Okay so desire, demand, need,
1:53.0	want, preference. Yeah there's a whole range of things that trip us up in our
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