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 Nell Smith. To engage with the awesome marriage podcast, use the hashtag awesome marriage.

Today, in continuation of our mini-series on three ways to make time with your spouse, Dr. Kim and I are here. We're going to be talking about

way number three, which is cultivate a common interest. So Dr. Kim, what are some examples of

common interests that you see couples have? You know, it's funny. I mean, I could be almost anything. I mean, I saw a couple I was in

conference last week in Tucson, and I saw this couple and they had a bird book. And they were,

they were getting ready to go for a hike and they were deciding what birds. So their interest

was birds. You can have interest in something, you know, and you know, a lot of times I think a couple, one person will have an interest in something and the other person say, well, I'll try that with you. And so then they

kind of become interested in it. I think, you know, movies are okay, you know, I don't have

trouble with a couple of binge and Netflix together. You're sitting there together doing it. It's fine.

Find a movie.

Do something like that.

I think activities together.

I loved it.

And it's always been fun for us to do activities together.

Depend, you know, some people do sports together.

A lot of couples at the gym that there's a new couple that just kind of came to our gym.

This comes out the same time we do in the morning and they work out together every morning.

And so you see, that's the thing.

I mean, I think there's a lot of, I think it goes back up.

There's opportunities right in front of you.

What are you going to do?

And I think it's also, you know, we sometimes will say, somebody else suggests something if they do. We'll hear a couple talks about something.

...