Wives Want a Selfless Listener
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Many times, a wife just wants her husband to listen when she needs to talk. John, Greg and Erin discuss how a husband can be a good listener, even he doesn't feel like being one. Featuring Bill and Pam Farrel.
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | Just last night I sat down on the sofa with my wife kind of getting an end of the |
| 0:40.4 | day brief and it became very apparent to me very quickly. She wanted me to |
| 0:45.9 | listen. I was not to give her any answers. I was supposed to ask questions and |
| 0:50.4 | listen. And God gave me the wisdom to do just that. I'm John Fuller along with |
| 0:56.3 | my focus colleagues, Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. They lead our |
| 0:59.8 | marriage team. I'm feeling pretty good about last night. I mean we can talk about |
| 1:04.0 | that more later. You're very uppity. So I got that one right after years and |
| 1:09.2 | years of offering my solution and her looking at me like just listen to me. I |
| 1:13.6 | finally got it. Jim Daley and I had a conversation with Bill and Pam |
| 1:18.0 | Ferrell. They love working with married couples and they have a really fun |
| 1:21.7 | engaging relationship. Now in a previous episode they addressed a situation in |
| 1:26.5 | which a woman was frustrated because her husband was spending so much time |
| 1:30.5 | talking to his mom and here's more of that conversation. So often when we get |
| 1:35.8 | bumped what's in a spews out and if we haven't prepared ourselves in a godly |
| 1:41.4 | way in a spiritual way reading the word ugly things can come out. Well your |
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