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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

When You Misunderstand Your Mate

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Every marriage faces misunderstandings. While they can be awkward in the moment, they can also be something you laugh about it in the future. John, Erin and Greg tell how they've learned to work through misunderstandings in their marriages and discuss how wives can better communicate with their husbands.

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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 focus on the family dot com slash

0:40.4

marriage podcast. I wonder if there's been a time when your spouse said something

0:46.3

to you and you thought yeah got it but it turns out you didn't. I'm John Fuller

0:52.0

along with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They're in charge of our marriage department

0:56.0

here at focus and every couple has misunderstandings from time to time. Sometimes

1:01.6

those can be funny, right Greg? Yes. Sometimes you're painful. Yes. I remember

1:09.7

once I'm where we were going hiking as a family. So we're gonna stop I think

1:13.9

at like Chick-fil-A and grab some food and then just go off and picnic as we're

1:17.7

hiking. So I thought I made myself very clear what I wanted and so I dropped

1:23.0

the family off because I had to go get gas. And so when I came back I discovered

1:28.6

quickly that everybody had exactly what they wanted but me. So there's no food

1:35.6

for you. I'm like how did this not work? Our communication and she said I'm so

1:41.6

sorry and all right fine. So back to the gas station you got a hot dog. Well I

1:46.0

drove into the Chick-fil-A line ordered what I originally asked for to pay for it

1:51.4

though I could not locate my wallet. I'm searching everywhere come to find out

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