Are You In a One-Sided Marriage? | Ep. 503
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today Dr. Kim and I share the one-sided times we have experienced in our own marriages, and equip you with practical things to do if you find yourself in this situation.
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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. |
| 0:29.1 | We get a lot of questions and comments from people who tell us that their spouse is not on board with working on their marriage. |
| 0:35.4 | They tell us that they really want to make things better, but their spouse is just not willing to work on it together? So is this true in your marriage? |
| 0:42.1 | And what can you do if you are in this situation? This month, we're going to be talking all |
| 0:46.3 | about what constitutes a one-sided marriage and what to do if you are in one. So Dr. Kim, |
| 0:52.1 | what do we mean when we're talking about a one-sided marriage? |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, I think it's pretty common and probably it could vary a little bit, but basically I think |
| 1:00.3 | it's where you feel like your spouse, everything is about them. It's always worth spending |
| 1:04.3 | time with their friends. We're spending time with their family forever holiday. They're the ones |
| 1:09.2 | who make the festival, we go on vacation, |
| 1:11.6 | where they want to go. |
| 1:13.6 | And the other spouse feels like they're doing a lot of work |
| 1:16.6 | to make the marriage good, but they're not getting help, |
| 1:19.6 | and it's not reciprocal, and it's still very, very one-sided |
| 1:23.6 | because everything leans toward the spouse that's driving it that way. |
| 1:29.8 | And so it becomes very unhealthy over a period of time. |
| 1:32.7 | And I think it's almost not even recognizing the fact that you're married to another person. |
| 1:37.5 | You're not married. |
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