How Do I Tell My Wife to Get off Her Phone?
The Dr. John Delony Show
Ramsey Network
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How can I talk to my wife about her cell phone use without causing defensiveness? |
| 0:12.0 | It's hard for me to push through that and for us to get through that barrier. |
| 0:18.0 | You're never going to get through that barrier until you'll deal with the way you treated her in the path. |
| 0:29.1 | What up, what up, what up? |
| 0:30.8 | This is John with the Dr. John Deloney's show, taking your calls about your relationships, |
| 0:36.6 | your marriages, your kids, your emotional and mental health, |
| 0:39.7 | whatever you got going on in your life. For 20 years, 20 plus years, man, I'm sitting with hurting |
| 0:44.5 | people trying to figure out what's the next right move when everything's falling apart. |
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| 1:03.3 | Denver Colorado Denver C-O and talk to Martin what's up Martin hey how you doing? I'm doing all right, brother. How about you, man? |
| 1:12.2 | I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on your show. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:15.0 | Absolutely, man. What's up? |
| 1:17.5 | So my question is, how can I talk to my wife about her cell phone use without causing defensiveness? |
| 1:31.5 | That's my favorite question of the day so far, Martin. |
| 1:39.5 | Without causing defensiveness, why is that your goal? |
| 1:51.0 | So there's a lot of background to to to the question um okay let it rip so the first half of the first eight or nine years of our marriage were very uh emotionally abusive from my side and it caused |
| 1:57.4 | a lot of walls um between us okay and when I would come home from work and I would see if the house is dirty or things that weren't the way I wanted them, |
| 2:09.6 | and I would notice that maybe she was on her phone, I would automatically say, well, you've been on your phone for, you know, multiple hours. |
| 2:16.1 | Why haven't you been cleaning the house? |
| 2:17.4 | And that has led to other conversations. well, you've been on your phone for, you know, multiple hours. Why haven't you been cleaning the house? |
| 2:24.7 | And that has led to other conversations, to other areas of our marriage. And now I feel like when I talk to her about her being on her cell phone, |
| 2:30.2 | it automatically brings up all the things from the past. |
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