Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

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

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate

relationship.

Today we are continuing our series on communication.

Today we're going to be talking about dealing with feelings when it comes to our communication.

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So Dr. Kim, what do feelings have to do with communication? Well, I was going to say everything,

but I probably shouldn't say that. But it has such a big part to do with communication. I'm being able to either understand or

accept, and there's a difference there. Sometimes we do understand our spouse's feelings.

Sometimes, you know, until I have feeling, I think, I don't have a clue how she got there,

but I've got to accept that that is her reality.

That is her feeling at that time.

That helps me in communicating with her.

That helps us in communicating with each other.

Because if you disregard their feelings or ignore the feelings, that takes you a whole different path that you don't need to go.

So I think it helps knowing your spouse's feelings.

It helps knowing how they influence

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