5 Ways To Prioritize Your Marriage During The Holiday Season | Ep. 587
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Holiday season is upon us, and with it all things festive! I'm guessing your schedule didn't have much extra space to begin with, so now there's a risk of becoming truly overbooked. How can your marriage be a priority, even with so much going on?
Today Dr. Kim is sharing several of his best tips for prioritizing your marriage, even in this busy season.
We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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Ways to share the load of holiday tasks & preparation better
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How prioritizing your marriage this season can decrease your stress
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Dr. Kim's 5 ways to prioritize your marriage this season
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How to implement this if you aren't on the same page right now
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Tips to de-stress your holiday gatherings and enjoy them more
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
QUOTES:
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"It doesn't have to be a whole evening, it doesn't even have to be a whole hour. It can be just 15 minutes, but you protect that time." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"I think quality time is one of the most important things we do in a marriage, and it also seems to be one of the easiest to bump." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"Make sure you're on the same page together, then enjoy it together." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"There's so much unnecessary tension you can eliminate if you can start to use team language and work together." - Lindsay Few
QUESTIONS
What is one favorite Christmas tradition you and your spouse have, just for the two of you?
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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Dr. Kim's newest book, Love, Intimacy and Sex in the Second Half is now available as an eBook! Grab your copy here!
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Related episode: "What is team Language? Ep. 501"
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. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Today is the season for all things festive, so it's a |
| 0:30.8 | great time to talk about prioritizing what's most important. But before we do, we have something |
| 0:35.8 | really exciting to celebrate. Well, you really do. |
| 0:38.8 | Recently, we reached 4 million downloads on the most of marriage podcast. That is huge. Four |
| 0:45.1 | million downloads that represents four million opportunities for couples to heal, to grow their |
| 0:51.3 | marriage, for healthy marriages, to shine God's light in the world around |
| 0:56.0 | them. And I just want to thank each and every one of you for being a part of this. And we invite |
| 1:00.3 | you to celebrate what God is doing through awesome marriage with us. Thanks so much. Yeah, we're so |
| 1:05.5 | glad that you're listening. And in order to celebrate this milestone, we are hosting a giveaway. |
| 1:11.7 | So I'll give all the details during the break in today's episode, so stick around for those. |
| 1:16.4 | So Dr. Kim, getting into today's topic, you counsel couples every single week. |
| 1:21.6 | So what makes everyone feel so busy? |
| 1:25.0 | Well, I think because they are, because life is there. I was just thinking about |
| 1:30.8 | things when, you know, people, most of the couples that I see, both of them work. Some of them don't. |
| 1:35.8 | Some have, are our stay-at-home moms, and that's obviously worked too, a lot of work. But both |
| 1:41.7 | of them work, and then you've got children and all the things that |
| 1:44.4 | comes along with that. And I think, you know, we think when their babies got, they take so much |
| 1:49.0 | time, but then when they get older and they get in all these activities and things that you |
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