5 Tips for Reviving A Lifeless Marriage Ep. 527
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What did you hope for and dream of when you got married? Is your marriage all you dreamed it would be? For so many, it is not. It's easy to think it might be easier for other couples, but a good marriage takes time, energy, and hard work. There's hope for your marriage no matter where you are today, because as Dr. Kim shares with us, God hasn't given up on any marriage!
Episode highlights include:
- Dr. Kim's pro tip on why he gives couples "homework"
- Why many of us might stay distracted on purpose
- How one spouse make a change to the marriage on their own
- Dr. Kim answers an anonymous question about how to deal with sexual temptation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.9 | Is your marriage what you dreamed it would be? |
| 0:31.7 | For a lot of people, it's not, not at all. |
| 0:34.5 | And that's why there are terms like a dead marriage, a walkaway wife, neglected wife syndrome, |
| 0:39.7 | or the starter marriage, or maybe the honeymoon is just over and you don't have much hope |
| 0:44.8 | that things will get better. |
| 0:46.3 | And so that's why today we're talking about ways to deal with and to revive a dead marriage. |
| 0:51.9 | So Dr. Kim, as we get started today, what are some symptoms of a lifeless marriage? |
| 0:57.1 | I kind of got going on a list, but I'll kind of go through some of the things. |
| 1:00.6 | Things that I see probably where I see people are struggling when they come into counseling. |
| 1:04.2 | I mean, don't come into counseling tell me how great their marriage is. |
| 1:06.9 | You know, they come in because things are not poor. |
| 1:08.9 | So I think surface level, if any, communication, in other words, all it is is just, you know, they come in because things are not work. So I think surface level, if any communication, |
| 1:11.7 | in other words, all it is is just, you know, how's your day fine, but, you know, something like |
| 1:17.2 | that where you're not really connecting there. Sex life is non-existent or you feel like we're just |
| 1:22.1 | going through the motions or one person feels like they're being used because there's no |
| 1:26.6 | attention outside of the sexual attention. I used because there's no attention outside of the sexual |
| 1:29.4 | attention. I think when there's no spiritual life together, that there's a huge void there. |
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