Why You Must Talk About Money
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Financial stress is one of the most common reasons for conflict in marriages today. But, it's also something that many couples are uncomfortable talking about. John chats with Greg and Erin about how they've overcome financial challenges in their relationship. Featuring guests Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn.
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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 |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You |
| 0:35.8 | can find more relationship insights at FocusOnTheFamily.com slash Marriage |
| 0:41.3 | Podcast. Well here at Focus on the Family one of the top marriage struggles we |
| 0:47.8 | hear about from couples is financial stuff. They are struggling. I'm John Filler |
| 0:54.0 | along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and in the counseling that you've done both |
| 0:58.6 | of you. You've often met couples I'm sure trying to work through financial |
| 1:02.6 | difficulties. Oh for sure. I think a lot of times it boils down to things like |
| 1:08.4 | I'm secretly spending money. I don't want to tell my spouse because I feel |
| 1:13.6 | controlled. I don't want to have to I'm not a kid my money. And so the bottom |
| 1:19.1 | line they're not talking about finances and more importantly they're not |
| 1:24.8 | talking about the underlying issues that are driving whatever the |
| 1:28.8 | disagreement is around finances. Well let's go ahead and hear now from Jeff |
| 1:33.0 | and Shanti Feldhahn. They've been on the broadcast a number of times and they've |
| 1:36.5 | walked through a lot of struggles in their own relationship and they talked |
| 1:40.8 | with Jim Daley and me to tell part of their story. Jeff and Shanti welcome |
| 1:45.0 | back to Focus on the Family. It's great to be here. It's always good to be |
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