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What Have You and Sarah Learned About Triggering Each Other?

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Emerson shares practical lessons from 53 years of marriage with Sarah on handling triggers and disagreements without turning ordinary differences into relationship crises. Drawing from Scripture and real-life experience, he teaches couples how to normalize conflict, separate feelings from facts, question motives, and assume goodwill. This podcast helps husbands and wives who struggle with feeling unsafe or rejected build healthier, more mature connections.

Emerson Eggerichs, Ph.D.
Author, Speaker, Pastor

Questions to Consider

  1. How might normalizing disagreement change the way you respond the next time you and your spouse see an issue differently?
  2. In what ways could separating a difference of opinion from personal rejection prevent unnecessary pain in your closest relationships?
  3. What would it look like to question your interpretation of a spouse’s actions before deciding you know their motives?
  4. When is assuming goodwill toward your spouse warranted, and how might that posture transform an ordinary disagreement into collaboration rather than conflict?