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 week on the podcast, we're doing a mini series on three ways to stop fighting with

your spouse.

So we'll be going over one way each day that you can stop fighting with your spouse and just

have less stress and conflict in your marriage.

So today's way to stop fighting with your spouse is watch your tone.

So Dr. Kim, I feel like this is a huge

issue in a lot of marriages. It's just so easy to use the wrong tone or to have a negative

attitude and all of a sudden a big fight ensues because your spouse got an attitude with you or

vice versa. It's a huge issue. So why do you think it is so easy for us and such a common

issue that we're getting an attitude

with our spouse, Dr. Kim?

You know, the person more closest to usually is our spouse or should be our spouse.

And so I think when you're in a close relationship, different things can happen.

It may be expectations.

It may be, you know, and if you're comfortable someone and you know that they love you,

sometimes you let your guard down too much, But I've seen sometimes it is too much and you get short with your spouse or you get

negative to your spouse or they misinterpret something.

So I think it probably can happen more with a spouse than almost anyone and it almost seems like

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