Embracing Your Role as a Spouse

Successful marriages don’t thrive because of so-called “chemistry,” good luck, or wishful thinking. They thrive because the couple sacrifice their own interests for the sake of each other.

On our Focus on the Family Broadcast “Embracing Your Role as a Spouse,” our guest, author Kevin Thompson, describes three roles of a spouse:

As friends, spouses play and laugh together.
As partners, spouses handle conflict and communicate well.
As lovers, spouses put sizzle into their relationship.

Kevin regularly counsels couples in his role as lead pastor at Community Bible Church in western Arkansas. He’s also a conference speaker with popular talks about marriage and parenting.

Kevin says successful couples base their relationship on more than making money, managing the household, and raising kids. Every day they wake up asking:

How can I make my spouse’s life better?
How can I create the life that my spouse desires to have?
How can I make my spouse’s dreams come true?

Kevin also shares five keys to strengthening your marriage:

Humility
Respect
Mercy
Communication
Resilience

Listen to my full conversation with Kevin Thompson on your local radio station, online, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, via Google Podcasts, or take us with you on our free phone app.

While you’re online, I encourage you to take a few moments to try our free Marriage Assessment tool. It will help you quickly determine what’s working well in your relationship and identify areas where you may need some improvement.

While you’re here, Before I close, I’d like to extend an invitation for you to become a special partner with us through our monthly “Friends of Focus on the Family” program. When you do, I’ll send you a copy of Kevin’s book, Friends, Partners, and Lovers: What It Takes to Make a Marriage Work as a way of saying thank you for touching others with the love of Christ. You’ll also receive member-exclusive benefits. To make your pledge, or for more information, click here or call 1-800-A-FAMILY (232-6459).