Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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This is a mini series on three ways to keep your marriage good when you have children at home.

Being a parent is a huge responsibility.

But if we want to have an awesome marriage, we can't put our parenting role above our role as a spouse.

So this week, we wanted to give you guys some tips on how to stay intentional

about your marriage, even amidst the huge task of parenting. So in this series, we're going to be

going over three ways to keep your marriage good when you have children in the home. And so today

we're going to be going over the first way, which is have a daily update. So Dr. Kim, what does it

mean to have a daily update? Just making sure you, what does it mean to have a daily update?

Just making sure you set aside some time each day to connect to talk, to talk about your day,

what went on each day. So you can share. And so you're kind of catching up with each other.

You've been away during the day, whether you both work or want to stay at home or work from home,

mom or dad.

And so it's making sure that you touch base and get that connection.

We talk a lot about connection, but it's so important.

And I think there's no shortcut to doing it.

You've got to be intentional every day about, hey, how is your day, what went on today?

And if it was just five minutes, you know, I was talking to two couples this week. They're kind of struggling with when to do that. And what we found out is when

they, when he first comes home from work, he doesn't connect with her. And so one of the things that

I can't remember who told me years ago, but we did it in our marriage, and I encourage people do it.

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