WT 225: Letting Go of Unrealistic Expectations

Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs

Karen Stubbs

Christianity, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Kids & Family, Christian Parent, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Motherhood

4.9 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever walked into a situation with certain expectations and been disappointed when they weren't met? Today Karen shares how expectations can set our relationships up for failure. She defines the difference between desires and expectations and offers several tools for helping change expectations (for our children's faith, our marriage, our kids behavior) into desires so we can experience peace in our daily lives. Visit our website for links to everything Karen mentioned on today's episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs, a podcast designed to encourage and
0:06.2	equip moms by answering your questions about motherhood, hopefully helping you
0:10.6	maintain your faithfulness to God while experiencing a peaceful life on your journey.
0:15.2	Here's your host, Sunny Williams.
0:18.2	Hey everyone and welcome to Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs.
0:21.2	I'm your host today and I'm here with the
0:23.5	fabulous Karen herself. How you doing today Karen? I'm doing so good. How about you
0:28.2	Sunny? I'm doing good. I know you must be well because you just got back from
0:31.4	vacation. Oh let me just tell you.
0:33.3	And if I ever needed a vacation, it was this year.
0:36.3	Indeed.
0:37.3	I'm going to shut this door because we got the dogs in here
0:39.8	and I don't want them to think they hear something and run out.
0:44.0	You know how that is.
0:45.0	That's happened a time or two.
0:46.3	We have Barclay, who's a resident mascot,
0:48.3	but tell everybody who the fluffy one is.
0:49.8	Oh, the fluffy white one is my mom's dog, Cody, and we have inherited him for a few months why my mom is in
0:56.3	a sister living, or as she says, prison.
0:59.3	Oh good.
1:00.3	I'm glad that's going so well.
1:02.3	I mean, you know, and it's a boosy prison yeah I told her I said it's not a bad thing mom they make all your meals they wait on you hand and foot they're very nice to you and you got a piano bar going in the foyer and you know it's
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