When and When Not to Talk
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In marriage, learning to bring up certain discussions at the right time with your spouse is very important. John, Greg and Erin share some helpful tips on when and when not to have more difficult conversations with your mate. Featuring Rob and Gina Flood.
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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. I think we can all admit that sometimes it's easier to be nice to our |
| 0:39.6 | co-workers than it is to be kind to our spouse. Unfortunately this is something I |
| 0:45.6 | really struggle with. I go home after a nice day of being gracious and you know |
| 0:51.1 | very polite to people and somehow the bad John comes out and Dina gets the |
| 0:56.0 | worst of it. I'm John Fuller along with my friends and focus co-workers, Dr. |
| 1:00.1 | Greg and Aaron Smiley and Greg this is unfortunately pretty common I'm |
| 1:04.3 | thinking, right? I'm not alone. It is especially in our marriage at least with me. |
| 1:09.9 | I mean it like you were saying I mean it's it's easier to think a stranger |
| 1:15.8 | maybe to help someone to be patient with a stranger than with their |
| 1:20.8 | sadly-owned spouse. I have good chances though because I'm Greg's co-worker and |
| 1:25.2 | his wife. Well the other day Aaron was we had a long day as a therapist in the |
| 1:34.0 | office to see a lot of clients and so I'd said hey can I get anything for you |
| 1:39.2 | and so she said I'd love a coffee and so it's one of those I wasn't being |
| 1:44.6 | serious I was just trying to be polite. I would bring my co-worker coffee |
| 1:50.0 | exactly so I went to get her coffee and Aaron always loves she just likes multiple |
| 1:57.9 | drinks so I got our coffee a big ice water and as I'm getting out of the car it |
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