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  <title translate="true" tnt-trx-ref-value="Tip: Spouses &amp; MPD" tnt-trx-translated="true">Consejo práctio: Los cónyuges y el desarrollo</title>
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        <text styleclass="Heading1" translate="true" tnt-trx-ref-value="Tip: Spouses &amp; MPD" tnt-trx-translated="true">Consejo práctio: Los cónyuges y el desarrollo</text>
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      <text styleclass="Tip" translate="true" tnt-trx-ref-value="Tip: Spouses working on MPD together" tnt-trx-translated="true">Consejo práctio: Cónyuges trabajando juntos el el desarrollo</text>
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      <text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">In many ministries, the husband and wife serve together. This section is primarily for those who are both members of the missionary group. But the principles apply </text>
      <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">even if only one person raises personal support.</text>
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      <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">In many relationships it is common for one spouse to enjoy using the computer more than the other. If that’s the case in your family, and you are the computer-happy one, then please do not expect your spouse to want to use TntMPD to the same extent you might want to. Nevertheless, there are ways that you can work together, either with both of you using TntMPD or even just one (mostly).</text>
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      <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">If you have kids, especially several of them, you as a husband may find that your wife’s involvement in MPD is not actively engaging in MPD but rather making it possible for you to work on MPD.</text>
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      <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">Wives</text>
      <text styleclass="Normal" translate="true"> can help support and encourage their husbands by helping him overcome any personal obstacles he might have. For example, help him be organized. If he needs to be on the phone from 7-9pm, then help him get ready to dial the phone at 7 (not 7:15 or 7:30 or 7:45).</text>
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      <text styleclass="Heading2" translate="true">Tips for Spouses working on MPD together</text>
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        <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">Communicate! The most important principle in working on MPD as a couple is communication! You need to know who is going to do what, and when.</text>
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        <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">Develop a plan that works well for both of you, in your strengths</text>
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      <text styleclass="Indent4" translate="true">Example: A wife might prefer writing notes to making phone calls while her husband enjoys the relational aspects of making phone calls.</text>
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        <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">Record which spouse did the task</text>
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      <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">When one person writes the Thank You, in the description put their name in brackets. This could be especially helpful if both spouses enter data in TntMPD in separate databases.</text>
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        <text styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">If both of you are working in TntMPD, using two separate computers, then use TntSync to keep your databases in synchronization.</text>
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      <link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Tools_TntSync" styleclass="Indent3" translate="true">Read More &gt; TntSync</link>
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