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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

When Conflict is Actually a Good Thing

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Conflict is an inevitable part of a good marriage. The key is in how you work through it. John and the Smalley's give some hope to couples who seem to be fighting a lot. Plus, Jim Daly and Dr. Randy Schroeder provide a few pointers on how to handle conflict well in your relationship.

 

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0:00.0

Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst.

0:07.0

After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to

0:12.6

see God moving and working.

0:16.4

I know that focus on the family was just an answered prayer.

0:19.8

Alyssa's marriage was transformed so much so that she began sharing our resources with

0:25.4

many other hurting couples.

0:27.5

Focus on the family was really the first resource outside of our church that was truth, that

0:33.5

was vividly grounded, grounded and true, that we kind of were like, this is something

0:39.3

we can get behind.

0:40.6

I'm Jim Daily, working together this season, we can give families hope.

0:45.6

Please consider a generous donation today, and your gift will be doubled.

0:50.6

Our number is 800-A Family, or visit focus on the family dot com slash gift.

1:05.7

I've heard some couples actually say we never fight, and that may sound like a great thing.

1:12.5

I'm not so sure though.

1:14.2

I'm John Fuller, joined by my focus colleagues Aaron and Greg Smalley and Aaron, what's your

1:19.3

sense?

1:20.3

What's your statement of we never fight?

1:22.6

I think it's important to define what do they consider a fight.

1:26.1

Is it that they never disagree or that they never see something from a different perspective?

1:32.1

It may be that they really have honed in on their skills as far as how we manage conflict

1:38.1

and that it doesn't feel like a fight or they don't define it as a fight, but I'm always

1:43.8

very curious when I hear that because I think, hmm, I don't know that two different

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