Building an Emotionally Healthy Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
5/6/202628 min
Conflict in marriage can often feel like an all-consuming and explosive cycle that eats away at peace. It’s essential to acknowledge past experiences that contribute to these negative cycles. Ron (a licensed marriage and family therapist) and his wife Nan describe how self-regulation and retraining the brain's triggers can help bring restoration and healing in a marriage. The couple shares their own journey through the tragic loss of their young son and how these principles impacted that difficult process.
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Speaker 1· Soundbite0:11
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Speaker 00:23
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Speaker 2· Soundbite0:28
[gentle music] And it was just the same thing, and it just kept cycling, and I kept responding, and he kept responding, and it just was... What were we, 20-something years in? And it was like, "It's either you or me, or get us some help," basically.
Jim Daly· Host0:52
Wow.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:52
Because he's a thera- I mean, that's pretty dramatic ... yeah, he's a therapist.
Jim Daly· Host0:55
Yeah.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:55
I'm like, "Obviously you can't fix this, [laughs] so get us some help to help fix this."
John Fuller· Host1:00
Well, that's Nan Diehl describing, uh, some of the pain points in her marriage to her husband, Ron, and, uh, they're with us again today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly to unpack a little more and to help us understand how we can, uh, get to a better spot in our own marriages. I'm John Fuller, and thanks for joining us.
Jim Daly· Host1:19
You know, John, um, I think after yesterday's program, it made me think about the speck in the eye.
John Fuller· Host1:25
Mm.
Jim Daly· Host1:25
And I've never really thought about that verse in the context of marriage, but it's glaringly