Your Marriage Needs Conflict
Focus On The Family With Jim Daly
Episode 1: Your Marriage Needs Conflict
Video · 2 min · February 27, 2026
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In this episode, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley explain how you and your spouse can benefit from disagreements, arguments, and challenges in your marriage.
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View all- 1Episode 1: Your Marriage Needs ConflictIn this episode, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley explain how you and your spouse can benefit from disagreements, arguments, and challenges in your marriage.
- 2Episode 2: Conflict vs. CombatIn episode 2, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley describe how your emotions lingering under the surface often can lead to how you respond to your spouse.
- 3Episode 3: Pushed Buttons and Fight or FlightIn the third episode of “Healthy Conflict in Marriage”, Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley describe how lashing out or shutting down are both unhealthy and prevent couples from being able to love.
- 4Episode 4: How to Have Healthy ConflictWhen you’re charged up with emotion, you have to deal with yourself first. Greg and Erin Smalley discuss some of the things they do to calm down and commit to coming back for a healthy conversation.
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