When Super-Husband Isn't Enough

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

While doing things to help your spouse is wonderful, activities should never replace the joy of being together. Greg, Erin and John discuss how they've learned the importance of spending time with their spouses. Featuring Matt and Lisa Jacobson.

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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
0:28.3	today.
0:35.6	Doing things to express your love to your spouse can be really wonderful. But it
0:41.4	may be that in doing something to serve your spouse or to express love you
0:46.5	miss the point of just joyfully being together. I know there are times when
0:51.8	Dina and I get into this do it mode and and it's really for her, but I'm
0:57.8	excluding her and I'm gonna end up too tired at night to talk to her. So I have
1:03.0	to figure out how do I serve her, love her, demonstrate love to her without
1:07.7	eating up the time that I would normally spend with her. That's a long way of
1:12.3	saying welcome to the show. I'm John Fuller, welcome to Greg and Erin Smalley.
1:17.3	They're in the studio here as they are for pretty much every episode and we're
1:23.2	in here now as we begin from Matt and Lisa Jacobson. They've been married for a
1:27.7	number of years. They experienced a time when Matt was trying to serve Lisa, but
1:33.8	it wasn't going so well. It wasn't helping their marriage. Here they are kind of
1:37.9	sharing that story with Jim Daley and me. Let me ask you Matt, you thought you
1:44.5	were being a super husband by getting the dishes done, helping out with the
1:48.8	chores. I mean, here you are doing all the tasks that need to be done. I mean, you
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