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Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast

Why Negative Thoughts About Yourself Hurt Your Marriage

Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How you talk to yourself is a good indicator of the ways you'll treat others. John and Erin bring up how negative mindsets toward yourself can hurt your other relationships. Then, Ted Lowe and Jim Daly speak about overcoming self-doubt in your head so you can bless your marriage.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Jim Daly for Focus on the Family, and I'd like to talk to you about our

0:05.7

option ultrasound program.

0:07.8

For the past 20 years, we have been, you have been, providing ultrasound technology and training to pregnancy centers

0:15.0

all across the United States. As a result, more than half a million women

0:19.6

who were considering abortion have chosen to protect the life of their

0:24.4

pre-born baby. That's an incredible milestone and I'm so thankful for the

0:28.6

generosity of friends like you who have partnered with us to rescue these precious moms and their children.

0:35.8

But the need is ongoing.

0:37.8

It's not over.

0:38.8

There are so many voices in today's culture who are relentless about abortion rights and they're willing to

0:45.1

sacrifice the next generation. We can't let that happen. We need to be diligent.

0:51.5

Speak up for life by giving generously to option ultrasound and we'd

0:56.3

love to hear from you by June 30th. Donate at Focus on the Family.com Save Lives Today, or call 800, the letter A and the word family. Somebody observed that the way you talk to yourself comes out in relationships with others. That's especially true I think in the

1:24.7

marriage. What messages are you telling yourself and what messages are being

1:29.0

reflected in those relationships, particularly with your spouse? I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and

1:35.3

his wife Aaron, they lead the focus marriage team. Aaron negative thoughts, we talked

1:39.5

last time about this, they can be destructive to our relationships and it's not necessarily always a negative

1:45.0

thought about my spouse, it can be a negative thought about myself.

1:49.0

Absolutely.

1:50.0

You know, I always talk about we have that inner critic, all of us have that inner critic inside of us.

1:55.0

And if we, I'll say specifically to women, if you let her run wild inside of you,

2:00.0

that's what's going to be coming out and how you connect with others.

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