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backslash one thing. So today we're going to be continuing our mini series on three ways to

save a struggling marriage. We're in our number two way today. And so today's way is being

commit to being totally honest with each other. So Dr. Kim, in your experience, what are the

major ways that you kind of see couples being dishonest with each other?

Yeah, I think it usually comes most of what I see when somebody's doing something in their life,

thinking something in their life they don't want to share with their spouse. It could be

you have to do with finances, whether they've spent more money, the run credit cards up. It could obviously, if someone's

an affair, that's something that they become, it's really easy to become dishonest then, and the

lies just seem to manifest. I mean, it's like one lie leads to the other because you're trying

to cover yourself up. Just, you know, just all kinds of things like that.

Anything I think the red flag would be, if you're thinking something, doing something, and you're

not willing to share that with your spouse or you're lying about it to cover up and your spouse,

why? Why? You know, look at that. Look at that. Why is that happening? Because if you're not

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