When the Pressure is Too Much!
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When you get married, it's easy to believe that marriage will solve your problems. However, such an unrealistic expectation can do great harm to your relationship. John, Greg, and Erin discuss what it means to have healthier expectations for marriage. Featuring Bill and Vicki Rose.
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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. |
| 0:35.5 | It's a pretty common misconception that many young people have and that is getting |
| 0:39.6 | married will just be wonderful and it'll solve all of our problems. But I think |
| 0:44.7 | most married folks will assure you marriage is great, but it's not going to |
| 0:49.1 | fix problems so much as surface some problems. I'm John Fuller along with |
| 0:54.3 | Greg and Aaron Smolley who are in charge of our marriage department here at |
| 0:57.8 | Focus on the Family and Greg wonder how often you hear this kind of I don't |
| 1:03.6 | know super aspirational thing about marriage that it'll be perfect and it'll |
| 1:09.2 | solve all of our problems. I think we hear that quite a bit. It can be something |
| 1:14.0 | like hey getting married will solve our problem of having sex now and we |
| 1:20.3 | feel guilty and full of shame or we've been living together. So getting married |
| 1:24.2 | will solve that pregnancy. It'll solve that. So it's like this idea that as |
| 1:29.3 | long as we didn't get married then the guilt, the shame that we felt it'll |
| 1:32.6 | be you know dissolved and we can just keep moving forward and live in |
| 1:38.2 | happiness forever. The problem is that fixing a problem is a reason to get |
| 1:43.8 | married isn't probably the best reason to get married. And so even in those |
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