A Thankless Marriage: The Story You Don't Want To Tell | Ep. 272
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The word "thanks" is in the Bible over 100 times. There is something spiritual and connecting about gratitude. No one wants to be in a thankless marriage.
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk specifically about how to avoid the thankless marriage and different insights on how to implement gratitude in your marriage.
Tune in to learn more about how to have a thankful marriage!
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
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"Why is it important to say thank you in your marriage? It shows you care. It shows that you appreciate things. It is almost a respect thing too." -Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"You have to change your perspective on gratitude. I can't be grateful because I want my spouse to acknowledge it or do the same thing back, but because God wants me to do this as a spouse." -Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"You are being obedient to God. I am doing the things God would want me to do as a spouse. That way you don't resent it. Because if you keep doing things and don't get anything back and it is all out of you, you are going to keep resenting it." -Dr. Kim Kimberling
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. Today on awesome marriage, we're talking about the thankless marriage. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll be diving into how to avoid the situation and why gratitude is so important in a healthy |
| 0:34.0 | marriage. Dr. Kim, what happens when thank yous aren't hurt in a marriage? What happens |
| 0:38.8 | when a marriage really is lacking in gratitude? I think there's just a void there. I think being |
| 0:44.8 | grateful to your spouse, thankful for your spouse, thankful when they do things for you. I think |
| 0:49.9 | it just draws you closer together. It's another way to connect in that. And I think sometimes when it's |
| 0:54.4 | not there, you kind of wonder what is my spouse thinking. Do they really appreciate this? Do they |
| 0:58.8 | appreciate me? I take them for granted. I mean, all these negative things, depending on your |
| 1:03.3 | personality, you can really spend off in that quite a bit. But I think any of us, it just, you know, |
| 1:08.2 | when Nancy thanks me for something, know i just think oh that's |
| 1:12.0 | cool you know she noticed appreciated it she took the time to do it you know we've talked before |
| 1:17.9 | how many times that that maybe and maybe this kind of ties in with this that we may think it but we |
| 1:22.9 | don't say it you know it makes such a difference when if nancy thinks oh I'm so thankful of that or thank you and she |
| 1:30.3 | didn't say it well I don't know that and it doesn't do anything good I'm thinking well what's wrong |
| 1:34.3 | with her she didn't you know yeah say thank you or appreciate that I'm not going to do that anymore |
| 1:39.7 | you know yeah like that you know so I would do that but yeah, like that, you know, so I would do that, but I might. |
| 1:45.2 | You might. You never know. Yeah, and I agree. I think it's important to verbalize that |
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