People Skills Every Healthy Marriage Needs

Love is not the problem in most marriages.

Many couples genuinely love each other, but still struggle to feel connected, understood, and emotionally safe. Why? Because love alone is not enough. Healthy relationships also require healthy people skills.

In this episode of the Grace Marriage Podcast, Brad talks with counselor and author Debra Fileta about why so many relationships break down, not because of bad intentions, but because of undeveloped skills like listening, empathy, emotional awareness, and conflict repair.

They explore how our marriages reveal the way we show up in relationships, why defensiveness blocks growth, and how screens and technology are quietly interfering with intimacy in our homes.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Why you can deeply love your spouse and still struggle to connect
• The real reason your spouse may not feel loved
• Why marriage exposes what you haven’t healed or learned yet
• How defensiveness blocks growth (and what to do instead)
• Why most people were never taught the skills relationships require
• The hidden ways screens are damaging intimacy in your home
• Why avoiding hard conversations is costing you connection
• How to change your marriage by changing what you bring into it

If you want a stronger, more connected, and more intentional marriage, this episode is a great, practical place to start.

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🔑 KEY IDEAS:
• people skills in marriage and relationships
• emotional intelligence in marriage
• why communication fails in relationships
• how to improve marriage communication skills
• effects of technology on relationships and marriage
• how childhood patterns affect adult relationships
• listening skills in healthy relationships
• conflict resolution and emotional awareness in marriage
• why couples feel disconnected despite love
• Christian perspective on emotional and relational health


📚 KEY VERSES:
📖 Matthew 22:37 - “And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’”
📖 1 Corinthians 9:22 - “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.”


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