Understanding Your Spouse's Emotions - David and Jan Stoop Part1

By understanding your own emotions and the emotions of your spouse you can grow in intimacy! Jim Daly and John Fuller talk with Dr. David and Dr. Jan Stoop (who have been married 60 years!) about their book, SMART Love and how improving your emotional intelligence will transform your marriage.

They discuss the SMART acronym: S--Self-awareness of your emotions, M—Managing your emotions, A—Accountability, R—Reading the Other Person’s Emotions, and T—Together in the land of emotions. An encouraging reminder that with some intentional effort you can have the marriage you’ve always dreamed of.

[kerrybeckman]

Love the Smart acronym. It certainly is all about managing our emotions and know one another's emotions. Wow. Thank you.

[leuchtag]

emotional intelligence in marriage -- great topic!!!

[CryssyJ]

My church is full of praying men. They even have a men's prayer meeting every month.

[shelly-annaddoquaynor]

So many marriages need this. I need to get the book for my marriage.

[inthezonenews]

I can't believe they been married 60 years.

[bethanyatkinson]

So praying together happened after "the great tribulation"... Maybe helped keep the great tribulation from continuing???

[shariceornah]

Year 7 and I feel exactly how she feels in their 10 year tribulation

[jeffreybate]

After tonight, have a nice 4 day weekend. Be back on the site on Tuesday night.

[joyofsalvation]

Sadly it is all about "Emotions and Feelings" even in the Christian marriages in Western culture. Divorce rate is very high because of that.