Achieving Awesome Communication: Dealing with Communication Ruts | Ep. 475
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Did you know there's a strategic reason for the way bars are designed? Today Dr. Kim and Christina talk about what happens when communication grows stale or stops altogether. What leads to us getting stuck in a rut with communication? How can we avoid that? How can we get back out? Today we share insights into all of those issues, plus your mind might be blown like Christina's was when Dr. Kim explains the bar thing!
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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 |
| 0:21.9 | relationship. |
| 0:28.6 | Today we are continuing our series on communication. |
| 0:32.0 | Today we're going to be talking about dealing with ruts in our communication, when |
| 0:35.6 | communication goes stale or stops happening altogether. |
| 0:39.1 | If you are new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday. |
| 0:42.7 | And on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special guest interview. |
| 0:46.3 | Be sure to go ahead and hit subscribe in whatever podcast app you're listening so that you can |
| 0:50.0 | join us every single week. |
| 0:51.9 | So, Dr. Kim, why do couples get in communication ruts? |
| 0:56.3 | Probably a lot of reasons depending on different couples. The things that I see a lot, |
| 0:59.6 | I think just our differences come into in communication styles coming to be a part of that. |
| 1:03.9 | You know, one may be real black and white and they're thinking. One may be very analytical. |
| 1:08.9 | You know, so I think just how we communicate is part of it. |
| 1:12.1 | And we get in these ruts and we get frustrated and so we don't communicate well. |
| 1:16.4 | I think complacency. |
| 1:17.5 | I think sometimes people think this is a really, it takes a lot of work. |
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