Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you

strengthen your most intimate relationship. Last month on the podcast, we shared some of the

major money mistakes we see couples make and today we're sharing some money tips to try we want to see

couples thriving in their marriages and that includes stewarding money well it's a real pain

point for so many couples but there are a lot of ways to move out of that stuck and stress place

that we're going to share about today so dr kim as Kim, as we're getting started, I have noticed when

we talk about money, you get like a spark in your eye. Why is that? Well, I think a couple of things.

One, early in marriage, we didn't do boil with money. We didn't handle it right. And so we saw

the up close, the consequences that come from that, how it can erode some trust and how it can cause fights

and conflict and so i think knowing that when we did finally figure things out get on the same

page financially uh try to do things in the way we think god wanted us to with our finances it made

a difference and so i i just in in the counseling, I see so many couples that money is an issue.

May not be the big presenting problem, but a lot of times it's just one of the problems that they're

having to deal with. And if you've got other problems and money's a problem, then you've got the stress

that comes with that. So I think I know the difference that it makes and I think just we live in a

culture that doesn't tell us a lot about being responsible with money. And I think when we are,

our lives are better and when we're not, then we're just living under this stress all the time

that we create ourselves. Yeah. Oh gosh, that's a good point.

Yeah, that's really good.

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