3 Ways to Leave & Cleave- Way 1| Ep. 199
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Do you know what it means practically to leave your family and cleave to your spouse? Are your family ties causing marital conflict? So many couples don't know what it looks like practically to fulfill this call of leaving and cleaving that God sets for us. In this 3 part series Dr. Kim shares ways to practically leave and cleave. Dr. Kim and Christina discuss the 1st way today: physical distance.
Tune in to learn more about how to leave and cleave!
Be sure to tune in tomorrow as well to learn the 2nd way to leave and cleave!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:24.6 | This is a mini series on ways to leave and cleave. |
| 0:29.1 | Leaving your family of origin and cleaving to your spouse is a biblical call that God gives all of us as married couples. But it can be hard to implement and to execute, especially when |
| 0:33.7 | we're feeling external pressures. We want to help you see how to obey God in this command |
| 0:38.5 | and experience God's plan for your marriage in this. In this series, we will be sharing three |
| 0:43.0 | practical ways you can leave and cleave. We will be going over one way each day that can help |
| 0:48.0 | you leave your family and cleave to your spouse. Today's way is physical distance. |
| 0:53.0 | So Dr. Kim, when we are talking about physical distance here, |
| 0:57.0 | we're really referring to the leaving part of this command, therefore like the leaving part of the family of origin. |
| 1:02.4 | So why is physical distance such an important step when it comes to leaving our family? |
| 1:07.7 | I think it just gives us one. It gives us the picture of we are separate. |
| 1:10.9 | You know, like, and you know, I've had couples that for one reason or other would live back in |
| 1:15.2 | with their in-laws for a period of time. And it just, it doesn't work that way. It's hard to |
| 1:20.3 | establish your own identity as a couple, identity as your family. And so I think just that physical |
| 1:24.9 | act of moving and being away gives you the chance for that, for that identity to come and to stab your self and for the family of origin to look at you differently and for you guys to look at yourself differently. |
| 1:36.8 | So, you know, I think when God, you know, when God gives us these ideas or these commands, there's a reason behind it. |
| 1:44.1 | And I think, you know, I think there's a |
| 1:45.2 | couple things. I think, I think God gives us a lot of things where there's just wisdom, like in |
| 1:48.6 | Proverbs, and we can take it or leave it. You know, our wife's going to better if we do it. I think |
| 1:52.0 | the leaving cleave is an absolute. I think it's one it's in the Bible and it's important. And I see I see when |
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