94-Marriage & Chronic Illness with Kimberly Rae
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
4.7 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
PII: 1 in 2 of marriages deal with chronic illness, and most of them are invisible (ie: depression). Kimberly shares what life is like when you're dealing with constant challenge in your body. She has an incredible heart and really gives us wisdom whether we're serving a chronically ill spouse or receiving their care. Spoiler alert: There is so much hope in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and |
| 0:07.7 | inspiring wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage. |
| 0:13.9 | Here's your host, Bella Rose. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi there and welcome. Thanks for joining me on the show today. When you and I took our vows, we said that we were going to be faithful to our spouse in sickness and in health. And for a lot of us out there, according to my guest, Kimberly Ray, one in two couples experienced chronic illness. |
| 0:41.7 | And today that's what we're talking about, how to be the person either that's dealing |
| 0:45.9 | with the illness and receiving care, maybe from your spouse, and or how to be the one that's |
| 0:53.1 | giving the care and giving the support. And a lot of illnesses |
| 0:57.6 | aren't very obvious, as Kimberly talks about. It could be a mental illness or mental health illness, |
| 1:04.3 | depression, bipolar. I mean, there's just a myriad of things that require extra care and sensitivity. |
| 1:13.9 | And so I think today it's really a good idea to understand not only for the potential |
| 1:20.7 | that your own marriage could encounter this or that you are dealing with it right now |
| 1:25.7 | or that you know someone that needs some guidance and |
| 1:28.8 | some help. The other part of this is that no matter where you land on whether or not you need |
| 1:34.3 | guidance with chronic illness, I was talking to a friend's husband. We visited them just last |
| 1:40.6 | weekend and the husband was telling me that a lot of times when you hear the |
| 1:45.3 | stories of someone else, what they've gone through, what they've come out of, it gives you this |
| 1:50.3 | encouragement. I mean, you have so much more to be grateful for, don't you? So it turns out that this |
| 1:56.6 | man grew up in Rwanda and he experienced the genocide that went on there in his lifetime, |
| 2:06.3 | right? This affected his extended family members, his friends. He saw a lot of people killed. |
| 2:12.4 | And when I talk to this guy, I mean, the kind of kindness and generosity of spirit and the way he is with his wife, it's incredible. |
| 2:27.7 | So I guess I say that because when we hear the stories of what we're going to hear from Kimberly. |
| 2:36.5 | Now, Kimberly has got an amazing heart. |
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