Where Unhealthy Expectations are Born
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
While romantic music and movies can make us feel good, they sometimes paint an unrealistic picture of what marriage is really like. John, Erin and Greg discuss how to stop feeding unrealistic expectations about your marriage. Featuring Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Erin Smolley. |
| 0:04.0 | We all need encouragement and marriage. |
| 0:06.5 | So if you want biblical guidance on your journey, check out our podcast, Crazy Little Thing |
| 0:11.1 | Called Marriage, which I host with my husband, Dr. Greg Smolley. |
| 0:15.3 | We chat with some great folks about how you can make your marriage stronger every day. |
| 0:20.1 | Listen at crazylittlething Called Marriage.com or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.2 | You know, our culture tells us that romance is supposed to play out like a beautiful movie |
| 0:40.5 | scene. |
| 0:41.5 | I mean, the sunset is gorgeous, the music is playing the background, and yet when real |
| 0:46.4 | life occurs and your marriage seems kind of boring, you're not obtaining those romantic |
| 0:52.4 | moments like you used to, you get kind of disappointed in where you're at as a couple. |
| 0:57.4 | Well, I'm John Fuller in the studio with Erin Smolley and her husband, Dr. Greg Smolley, |
| 1:02.2 | and they lead our marriage team here at Focus on the Family. |
| 1:05.6 | And we're going to hear now an amazing testimony of Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs. |
| 1:10.7 | They were married to each other. |
| 1:12.1 | They got divorced for a time and then came back together again. |
| 1:16.2 | Now previously they explained how Cheryl was having an affair and Jeff didn't know about |
| 1:20.5 | it. |
| 1:21.5 | Here's more from that discussion with Jim Daly and me. |
| 1:24.6 | And what I've heard both of you say is expectations, Cheryl, your expectations of Jeff once |
| 1:30.2 | you got in the relationship and Jeff, your expectations about the move to Dallas did |
| 1:35.1 | that exasperate things when you finally did move or did that calm things down? |
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