3 Money Tips That Saved My Marriage #1 - Tracking What We Spend | Ep. 30

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we will be diving into 3 money tips that can save your marriage. Dr. Kim and Christina discuss tracking what you spend, creating an emergency fund, and goal setting.

Tune in to learn more about using these three helpful steps to prevent fights, provide unity, and gain clarity!

RESOURCES

Taking Financial Peace University is a great first step to getting your money on track. Check out Dave Ramsey’s resources at Dave Ramsey’s website.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage
0:05.7	and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.
0:09.4	I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.
0:11.5	On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.
0:14.1	Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.
0:18.1	His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.
0:30.3	All right. So today we're going to be talking about three money tips that saved my
0:35.1	marriage. And so these are just great, great helpful tips. And I know
0:38.7	a lot of couples struggle with money. And so we're excited to talk about this today, Dr. Kim, right?
0:42.3	Oh, yes, we are. I'm excited to do this kind of new form map with Streamyard. And we're excited
0:47.2	about it. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, the first tip is tracking what we spend. And so Dr. Kim,
0:53.2	what made you and Nancy start tracking what you
0:55.7	spend? Oh, I think we, early in marriage, we had both kind of never lived on our own before.
1:02.7	We'd never really, we both worked, but it wasn't like we had to depend on that for our income
1:08.2	and everything. And for some reason we got married, our parents didn't
1:11.5	continue to support us. It was kind of like, okay. You got, it was so extreme. You got to figure this
1:16.2	out. So I think a lot of it wasn't necessity after a few months in. And I think it would finally,
1:22.5	I don't know whether I think it wasn't, it wasn't Dave Ramsey because he wasn't around then. There was the other guy that's for him that I can't be,
1:28.0	I can't remember.
1:28.9	But he said, you know, there's a lot of stuff that you spend money on that you just don't know about.
1:33.7	So we began to do that.
1:35.6	Some awarenesses came and that was when we first began to do a budget.
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