The Love Talk | Learning to Communicate

The Love Talk segment titled Learning to Communicate tackles the backbone of healthy relationships: honest, empathetic dialogue. Erica emphasizes active listening, speaking life over assumption, and graceful reconnection—even amid disagreement. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let us talk about love for God, so love the world. Yes,
it is time for the love talk of the day.
And you know what I think is really unfortunate that
in relationships we speak two different languages. For most men,
you know, if I am paying the rent, if I'm

(00:22):
taking care of you, if we eaten, and everything should
be fine. And for women, if you are not talking
to me and not spending time with me, it's a
big problem. Well, for some women, it is not always
easy to find a middle ground for you guys to
speak the same language, and so when you don't communicate well,
you give the enemy space to come in and plant

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seeds of this ain't working, and so much damage starts
with this ain't working. And if you replace this ain't
working with God, we need you, you can at least
get to the middle ground where you can at least
talk about it. I have a million married friends and
I've heard a million scenarios, and how do you get

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to that troublesome space? Is feeling very hopeless, like what
you're doing is not working, and if God is not
just the center, you don't have the glue necessary to
hold you together. Now, listen, it's some people that don't
love Jesus and they don't stay together married for a
long time. But I'm telling you, with Jesus, it just
makes it a whole lot easier, especially if your goal
and your aim is to have the Father's heart in

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the middle of your relationship. If God said it's not
good for man to be alone, if we were created
to do life together, to support, to be, love and
to love, to here to communicate to the Bible says
cause us help. And you know, for a long time
people would refer to help as like the like the maid,

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like the assistant, But if you really look into the
real true definition of the word help, God uses the
same word for himself. And so it is it requires
us to be more intentive when we see value in
each other's words. When you don't minimize their opinions and
when you don't look over their opinions for whatever you feel,

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it allows you to hear them and see them in
a different way. And so I'm praying that you allow
God's love and God's heart to be the glue that
holds you together, especially if things are uncomfortable, and you know,
sometimes you can just deal with it. And you know,
let me tell you when you really allow the enemy
to get in the middle of your situation, you can
be there and gone at the same time. Most people

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leave mentally before they actually leave. So please, please, please,
I'm praying for you. I'm praying for your marriage. I'm
praying for your communication. I'm praying for your heart for
one another. Remember the reason you got married in the
first place. And then if that ain't up, put Jesus
in the center, because you made a commitment and God
is able to show you how to love one another.
He really is. And love is a lifelong journey because
it takes just about that much time to figure each

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other out. But don't let the enemy pull you apart
because of a lack of communication or lack of care
to communicate. All right, it can't just be well, I'm
taking care of you and you should be okay. That
ain't working no more, Brothers, you got to do more
in the area of communication and women, we need to
be open and honest and learn to convey past the
last offense, because sometimes the last offense is so loud

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that you can't get to the real situation. So I'm
praying that God be right in the center of it all.
All right, That is my love talk for the day.
I love you and I mean it.