Show Date:
Topic of Discussion:
May 15, 2007

How to Love, Understand and Validate Your Spouse
(with thanks to Gary Smalley's The Marriage You've Always Dreamed Of, Tyndale 2005)

Slide #1: We all need to learn the art of "LUV" Talk

Slide #2: When offended give your spouse the gift of describing your true emotion(s).

Slide #3: Use an "I" statement to explain what you're feeling.

Slide #4: "I feel nagged when you ask me to clean the garage in front of the kids."

Slide #5: "I feel ignored when you talk all evening to another woman at a banquet."

Slide #6: Your spouse's gift to you is to understand and validate your emotions.

Slide #7: "I can understand how you feel that way and I wish to apologize."

Slide #8: "The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out." Proverbs 20:5


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