Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening.

So today we're doing an Ask Dr. Kim segment on the Awesome Marriage Podcasts where people submit

their questions to us and then we take the time to answer them. So today's question came from a listener and it says, how can I support my wife

when she is emotional? My wife is sensitive and sometimes emotional and I really struggle with that.

I'm not emotional and I don't know how to support her. So how can I support her? So I am sure

that this guy is not alone out there. I think this is a lot of people's

struggles when it comes to marriage where, you know, one is more emotional than the other,

usually going to be the wife. But how can this person better understand his wife? What do you think,

Dr. Kim? Well, I think to start with when he said he's not emotional. I think sometimes as guys we don't realize, but it wasn't like God just gave emotions to women and not to men. We all have emotions. I think for for us as guys,

we most have grown up in a culture where it hasn't been as okay to have emotions, show our emotions,

really develop them. We realize we have some of those as it usually is for women. So I think in

most instances,

as you go into marriage, most of the time the woman's going to be more in touch with their

emotions than the guy is. And I think a lot of it is the guy has no idea then like this guy is saying

what to do when my wife says emotions. And we're just talking about just normal day-to-day emotions

or a wife being sensitive to something or something upsetting her or or whatever like that

and I think sometimes then with guys it goes back to the thing that we want to fix things and

you can't really fix that and I think for him to know that how do you understand your wife better

I think it's just being there when they're emotional there's a lot to be said by just saying

just sitting by her just telling her if she's a lot to be said by just saying,

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