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Awesome Marriage Podcast

6 Tips for Surviving the Holidays: Tip 5

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9802 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 17 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: assume nothing.

Tune in to learn more about what it means to “assume nothing” 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.

0:21.2

So this is a series on six tips for surviving the holidays.

0:25.1

The holidays can be so stressful for a lot of reasons.

0:27.4

And in each episode of this series, we've been talking about one tip for surviving the

0:31.3

holidays with your marriage still intact.

0:33.5

So today we're going to be talking about in this episode, Assuming Nothing.

0:37.4

So Dr. Kim, what do we mean when we say assume nothing?

0:40.0

And how is that a tip to help us survive the holidays?

0:42.7

Yeah, I think it's something we're all vulnerable to to assume things.

0:46.1

Probably in other words, you used to be expectations, what of expectations that you have.

0:49.5

And usually that's going to be of other people.

0:52.1

And usually it's going to be your family members or close

0:54.2

friends, people you're closest to. And so a lot of times when we have those things that we assume

0:58.9

or those expectations, we don't say, we don't tell the people what they are. And then we get

1:04.0

mad at them because they didn't meet our expectations. And so we can really get in trouble with that.

1:08.0

And so I think one of the things we should probably look at is

1:10.8

just that whole idea of assuming nothing. You know, don't keep your expectations so realistic

1:15.5

and so really low expectations. Then if somebody goes up and above, great. It's a surprise.

1:21.6

It's just surprised and it would be great and everything. But I think a lot of that comes from

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