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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Are You Getting Bitter, Or Getting Better? | Ep. 526

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Christianity, Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

{Editor's Note: Audio was repaired 11/2023.} So much of life is not what happens to us, but how we respond to it. Life is hard and it never seems to go exactly according to our plans. My grandad said that we all have the choice to either get bitter, or get better. And he lived out what it looks like to get better, even in the face of all of life's troubles.

Today Dr. Kim shares what ongoing bitterness looks like over time, and how we can avoid becoming grouchy, grumpy, and mean! 

Episode highlights include: 

  • How to know if you're becoming more bitter 
  • Practical steps to help you "get better" instead
  • Tips for dealing with the difficult people in your life 
  • This week's anonymous listener question leads to a memorable story from one of Dr. Kim and Nancy's recent dates 

 

We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage. 

 

P.S. I misquoted his age in the episode - my grandad lived to 94½ before he went to heaven last year! 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:09.9

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.

0:13.4

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

0:17.0

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

0:21.8

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

0:29.9

We know that life will let us down at some point, and the people we love the most will inevitably

0:35.5

let us down at some point, too.

0:37.3

We're all only human, and life can't really go exactly the way we plan.

0:41.2

But we do have a choice in how we respond when hard and hurtful things happen.

0:45.8

We can either get bitter or we get better.

0:48.0

And today, we're going to talk about healing from hurts and growing from them.

0:52.0

So, Dr. Kim, is there an example of anyone who you have known,

0:56.7

who either grew bitter or grew better? Yes. I mean, I can think of a couple of people over

1:02.5

my life and certainly some people in counseling or family members of people in counseling

1:06.4

that I've heard about. But it seems like when someone gets a negative thing in their mind and they don't deal with

1:14.4

it, don't say, hey, I got to deal with this.

1:16.7

I need to get better.

1:18.6

Then that grid, they pass everything through that kind of grid of bitterness and the

1:22.9

bitterness continues to grow.

1:24.3

And the person that I know, a person I know well that, that has done that

1:29.0

and continue to do that. And it's like has done this for probably two or 12 years in a relationship.

1:34.9

And the relationship gets more distant and distant and distant. And the person gets more

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