Accidental Gaslighting | Ep. 490
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Could you be an accidental gaslighter? We're all vulnerable to bad patterns in marriage so it's wise to pay attention to them. Last episode we defined gaslighting and talked about what to do if this has become part of your marriage. Today we are talking about accidental gaslighting. Tune in to take a solid look at some signs you might be accidentally harming your spouse's mental or emotional health, and what to do about it.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
RESOURCES
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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 |
| 0:06.8 | practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:30.4 | Today we are continuing our conversation about gaslighting. Gaslighting is confusing and stressful |
| 0:36.0 | and many people are unintentional and accidental |
| 0:38.8 | gaslighters. Some of you gaslight and you don't even know it. So today we're going to focus on |
| 0:43.7 | that piece, the spouse who doesn't intentionally do this. Today we want to help you, one, |
| 0:48.8 | see if you were doing this and two, learn how to better break patterns and avoid this. And three, |
| 0:53.9 | learn how to honor your spouse |
| 0:55.3 | in a way that protects and serves their body, soul, and mind. If you're new to the show, we drop a |
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| 1:11.2 | So Dr. Kim, let's briefly define gaslighting once again in case someone missed last week's |
| 1:16.9 | episode. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, that's great because I think I do love the origin that goes all the way back to a play |
| 1:22.6 | and a movie back in 1938. |
| 1:24.7 | And so that term originated there and then has kind of carried through we just seem |
| 1:28.9 | to hear a lot more about it now but it's used in the mental health situation manipulative behavior |
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