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Even though my wife and I have been together for well over 30 years and we've

raised our kids together, we've been so caught up sometimes in our own roles

that we don't ask each other how's it going? How has life been for you? And we

find that the more we enter into each other's worlds, the better our

communication is, the deeper our connection. I'm John Fuller along with Greg

Smolley. He heads our marriage department here and Jim Daley talked with Greg and

his wife Aaron about ways to enter into your spouse's world and regardless of

how long you've been married, I think you're going to find this very helpful.

There's a distinction between sympathy and empathy and you know spouse can feel

sympathetic but you believe that's not the goal. Empathy is where you need to

move to. What's the difference? Well when Aaron shared what it was like

for her over the many years of cooking, I could instantly you know sympathize

and gone oh yeah that must have been rough man that's that's terrible but that

was hard but sympathy is when we feel bad for someone. So I could feel bad for her

in that moment but empathy is very different than that. Empathy is actually

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