6 Tips for Surviving the Holidays: Tip 4
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The holidays can be a stressful time for a number of reasons and they can often be hard on our marriages. It’s important that we learn to deal with these stressors in a healthy way and find ways to enjoy celebrating the holidays with our spouse. This is a series on 6 Tips for Surviving the Holidays. In each episode we talk about 1 tip for surviving the holidays and coming out of them still happily married and connected. This episode's tip is: don’t overcommit.
Tune in to learn more about what it looks like to not overcommit yourself and your family over the holidays and how that will help your marriage in this season!
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:11.9 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:23.8 | So we are going over a series of six tips for surviving the holidays. The holidays can be such a stressful time in a time where a lot |
| 0:28.0 | of married couples end up pitted against each other because they're fighting about different |
| 0:31.5 | things. And there just ends up being a lot of stress instead of celebration like there should be |
| 0:35.2 | on the holidays. So we've been giving out tips in each of these episodes on how to survive the holidays and to come out of them still |
| 0:41.2 | happily married and connected. So today's episode, the tip is to don't overcommit. So Dr. Kim, |
| 0:47.6 | how do you see couples overcommitting themselves over the holidays? What are the pressures |
| 0:51.6 | that tempt us to do this? Yeah, I think during the holiday, during December, there's a lot of opportunities. |
| 0:57.3 | You know, people have parties, so they have gatherings. |
| 1:00.1 | Churches have a lot of activities, things like this. |
| 1:02.0 | And I think you say, we end up saying, yes, we feel bad that we turn somebody down and we |
| 1:05.9 | don't go to their party or their event or we should be everything. |
| 1:09.1 | Every time the church opens in December, we should be everything every time the church opens in December we should be |
| 1:10.9 | there all those kind of things and so we're saying yes way too much and then we don't have time to do |
| 1:17.4 | some of the things that we've talked about that we want to be intentional in some of the other podcasts |
| 1:21.3 | in the series what intentional about and do and so it's just saying yes way too much really I think is |
| 1:27.4 | what happens and they happens and not being |
| 1:29.0 | willing to say no, because most of the things that come up are not bad things. It's not like |
| 1:33.1 | you're choosing between, oh, this is great and this is really bad or dark or something like that. |
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