"Your Spouse Will NOT Fulfill All Your Needs"
Lights On with Carl Lentz
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4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Carl and Laura discuss marriage, communication, and conflict. They stress clear communication, avoiding resentment, and the dangers of contempt. Carl's week-long experiment of no criticism improved their dynamic. They discuss expressing needs, parenting challenges, and validating feelings. A recent fight led to a breakthrough in understanding Carl's defensiveness. They advocate for frequent, open communication to prevent resentment and contempt.
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| 0:49.4 | This entire thing is my fault. |
| 0:51.9 | I made this occurrence from you about me. And what I realized in that |
| 0:57.3 | moment, which is why if you can constructively fight, that was a beautiful thing for us, |
| 1:01.8 | was to be able to stop mid-fight and go, hold on on. We'll fight in a second. This is awesome. |
| 1:06.6 | I just realized something detrimental that I want to fix quickly. Do not hold a grudge against your spouse for something that you cannot articulate. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | That to me is I will look at somebody that said, I got to stop you right there. |
| 1:20.9 | We talked to an awesome person who is like, I want more intimacy from my spouse. |
| 1:30.2 | And I said, got it. What do you mean? |
| 1:34.7 | Well, you know intimacy. I don't know what you mean. Do you know how many people have a definition of intimacy? So describe for me what you need from this man that he's not giving you. Well, I don't |
| 1:39.9 | know. Okay, well, you might want to rethink holding that against him because either there's a you thing |
| 1:46.1 | going on or you need to work really hard at articulating to hold a man accountable for something he's not |
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