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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

When Your Money Habits Clash

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Money. It's one of the most common reasons couples fight. To help ease financial tension, John and Erin will share a helpful key for when you're frustrated with your spouse's financial choices. Featuring Mr. Chuck and Mrs. Ann Bentley.

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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.

0:36.3

It's really common for couples to have disagreements about money. I remember a

0:40.0

coworker who said, I'm only here because my husband wants toys. He wants a

0:44.9

boat. He wants ATVs. He wants this and that. And you could tell that her

0:49.7

heart wasn't in it. And so there was an obvious disagreement about money

0:53.7

right there. I'm fortunate. My spouse and I are generally on the same

0:58.2

page. Although we've playfully admitted that we both have these little sinkhole

1:02.7

areas where the money just flows out pretty freely. And we've had to figure

1:07.6

all that out. Now maybe you've had to figure some things out or you feel like

1:11.9

I got to figure this out, but my husband or my wife doesn't want to. We're

1:16.5

here to help. I'm John Fuller, along with Erin Smolley. She's a counselor and

1:21.8

she's on the team here at Focus on the Family. She and Greg lead the marriage

1:26.0

team. And we're going to turn and listen now to Chuck Bentley. He's the CEO of

1:31.1

Crown Financial Ministries. And he and his wife and are very candid about their

1:36.3

own struggles with money. And the years it took for them to reach a agreement

1:41.3

generally on their finances. And here's part of their story as told to Jim

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