#3 - The Art of Being a Wife (Part 1)

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The Art of Being a Wife (Part 1)
The Art of Being a Wife (Part 2) - Building Up Your Man
The Art of Being a Wife (Part 3) - Praising the Positive
The Art of Being a Wife (Part 4) - Embracing the Differences
The Art of Being a Wife (Part 5) - Leaning on God
The Art of Being a Wife (Part 6) - Being His Helper
The Art of Being a Wife (Part 7) - Facing the Storms

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The Art of Being a Wife

Guest:                        Barbara Rainey                    

From the series:       The Art of Being a Wife (Day 1 of 1)

Air date:                     October 20, 2016

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Bob: In the Book of James, the Bible says we are to be “quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.” Barbara Rainey says she doesn’t see that being lived out today in a lot of marriages.

Barbara: We are so quick, as women, to say exactly what we think / exactly how we feel without much regard for how that impacts him—or other people, for that matter. We have a really high value in our culture today on being truthful / on saying what we think; but we don’t have an equally high value on saying it in love. It affects our marriages. We all say things in our marriages that we probably shouldn’t say.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, October 20th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. Would your marriage be different / be better if you slowed down and didn’t speak as thoughtlessly as you sometimes do? 

1:00

We’re going to hear from Barbara Rainey on that today. Stay with us.

And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. Most of the time, I am glad our program is radio and not television. That way I can wear pajamas to the studio if I want to and nobody knows what I’m—

Dennis: You have never done that. [Laughter]

Barbara: Except all of us in the studio would know! [Laughter]

Dennis: Twenty-four years—

Barbara: You should try it sometime! [Laughter]

Bob: Well, I’d have to go buy a pair of pajamas first before I did that.

Barbara: Oh! [Laughter]

Bob: But, there are days when you think the visual would be helpful. Actually, what we’re going to hear today—

Dennis: Of you and your pajamas? I’m not getting beyond that.

2:00

Bob: No, not that visual. There’s a different visual here. It involves your wife, who is joining us again. Welcome back to FamilyLife Today, Barbara.

Barbara: Thanks, Bob.

Bob: You had an o