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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

When Your Kids See You Argue with Your Spouse

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It's embarrassing when your kids see you and your spouse argue with each other. If that happens, how do you move on? John and Danny discuss how to reassure your kids that things will be okay, and Jim and Jean Daly talked with Lisa-Jo Baker about a time she got into a heated argument with her husband.

 

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0:00.0

I think one of the more embarrassing things my kids have witnessed is an argument with

0:07.7

Dina that was right in front of them and it didn't go anywhere.

0:11.9

It was just kind of an ugly argument with no resolution at the moment.

0:16.9

It put everybody on pins and needles. It was just awkward. It was not my shining moment. Unfortunately, the kids have seen more than one of those

0:26.8

kinds of episodes. We're better. We're learning how to process and resolve and manage things in a way that my kids are taking note of.

0:35.4

In fact, one of them just the other day said, hey, you're growing, that's good.

0:38.6

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Huerta, who has never had any sort of embarrassment at all.

0:44.1

Danny is perfect and that's why he leads our parenting team and I'm joking you know

0:48.9

that.

0:49.9

Yeah, John.

0:50.9

Danny's been around a long time you've got a lot of life experience you do have some educational

0:55.2

and some practical experience that puts you uniquely in this role but like all of us you are you struggled

1:01.7

with stuff haven't you? Oh absolutely John oh no this is

1:05.2

time of confession between us right here John it's a safe space only several hundred

1:10.3

thousand people listening to our group therapy session.

1:14.0

Yeah, I was thinking back as you were talking about your moment,

1:19.0

your shining moments there with Dina, right?

1:22.0

Where we've gotten stuck. shiny moments there with Dina, right?

1:23.0

Where we've gotten stuck.

1:25.0

My wife is a whole different personality

1:29.0

and we know where our trigger buttons are

1:32.0

and we sometimes push those and the kids are

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