Working Through Triggers With Honesty
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
You love your spouse so much, but we're all still human. Part of being human is getting on each other's nerves. John, Erin and Greg discuss what it looks like for couples to work through irritations during the early years of marriage. Featuring guests Amber Lia, Guy Lia, and Jean Daly.
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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. |
| 0:36.6 | No matter how much you love your spouse, he or she is still going to do or say |
| 0:41.4 | something that gets on your nerves. She asked the other day, Dina looked at me |
| 0:47.3 | and she just she smiled and she said, could you please not do that anymore? |
| 0:54.0 | It drives me nuts. And so I mean this is after 35 plus years of marriage. I'm |
| 1:00.8 | always learning something to do or not do that doesn't distress her. It only took |
| 1:06.0 | me one year to have to tell you that same feedback. That's because she had been |
| 1:10.1 | laying the ground here to tell you. This is on the opening. John Fuller, you all |
| 1:17.7 | are the people I pitched to. Greg and Aaron Smalley are in the studio with me |
| 1:22.2 | today and we're going to start this particular episode with continuation of |
| 1:28.0 | a conversation that Jim and Gene Daley had with Guy and Amber Leah. They're |
| 1:33.2 | very candid about triggers that they had to work through in their own |
| 1:37.4 | marriage. And if you're struggling today, I'm pretty sure this is going to help |
| 1:41.2 | you. One of the things Amber you identified with and Gene said, yeah, that's |
| 1:45.9 | one for me too is when the house is a mess. Yes, that's a trigger. How is that |
| 1:50.9 | a trigger? I mean, are Guy and I triggering this and you and Gene? It's a |
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