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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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

So in each episode in the series, we've been talking about one tip for surviving the holidays

with your marriage still intact.

So this episode's tip is to take time for romance.

So Dr. Kim, what does it mean to take time for romance during the holidays?

I think it's just taking time to be intentional about time for the two of you.

You know, a lot of the things that we romanticize about Christmas besides certainly celebrating

Christ's birth, but it's just kind of a special time for a husband and wife to gather.

And so I think carving that out because we've talked in this series

so much about the busyness, expectations, so many things that can come during December

during the holidays that can just keep us distracted. They're not bad distractions, but if you

really want to grow your romance or have romance during the holidays, you're going to have to be

intentional about it. You're going to take time to do that. And maybe you develop a new tradition for just the two of you, you know,

and it may, whatever that could be, maybe it's you have a special dinner during the holidays. Maybe

you have a night where it's just the two of you and you watch a Christmas movie in front of the

fireplace or just something or sitting in front of the Christmas

tree together or just things that are romantic you know if you're somewhere where there's

snow maybe you do maybe make a snowman together or you know things that are just fun and it's just

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