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 ways to make time for your spouse. Having an awesome marriage takes intentionality. If we aren't intentional about

spending time together, it's not going to happen. In the series, we're going to be sharing

three ways to make time for your spouse. We'll be going over one way each day that will

help you to make more time for your spouse

and be more intentional about this.

Today's way is to have a regular date night.

So to kick off this series, Dr. Kim, why is it so important that we're really, really

purposeful about making time for our spouse and our schedules?

I think if we don't, it doesn't happen.

You know, I've had couples that, you know, we'll sit in counseling and they'll agree about spending time together of having a weekly date, night, all those kind of things.

But if it doesn't go in the calendar, if it doesn't, if they're not intentional when they

walk out of the office, they come back two weeks later and it's like, how was your date?

Well, we didn't have one.

Yeah.

So I think it is something you do have to be very, very intentional about, purposeful about to make that happen, especially to you to get in a pattern, you know, and you begin to reap the benefits.

I was talking to somebody this week and they said, and what are you guys doing this week?

He said, well, Thursday's date night.

And he said, we hold that sacred nothing gets in the way of date night and they both know it and I said that's that's what that's how you make it happen you put it in and it's like

you both know and I think that's sometimes helpful to have the same time every week and I'm not saying

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