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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So this week on the podcast, we were doing a mini series on three ways to stop fighting with your spouse. Today is way three. Stop letting other

people get in between your marriage. So Dr. Kim, I see this all the time. Other people getting

in the way of marriages and causing unnecessary stress and fights in a marriage.

It could be in-laws, other family, friends, co-workers that cause you to fight with your spouse

due to their behavior or what they say. So if you've ever thought about another person or how

one of you handled another person's behavior, then this podcast is for you. So it probably means

that this podcast is for everyone because I think we've all been affected

by this where, you know, if someone else's name comes up in a fight with your spouse,

that means you're fighting about another person or somehow they've gotten in the middle of

this.

And we need to figure out how to handle it.

So Dr. Kim, what are some of the most common other people problems that you see in marriages

in the counseling room?

I think the big ones come in extended family situations, whether it's your in-laws, which we

have to deal with.

We have to figure how we're going to deal with their in-laws.

It could be a brother, sister, siblings, those kind of things.

Maybe it may be somebody else in the extended family. But I think family member, when you come together with two

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