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. Today I'm Asked Dr. Kim, we got the question, how do you deal with the fact

that we aren't on the same page when it comes to public displays of affections?

I feel like this is really common, Dr. Kim, but to kick things off, let's kind of explain what that

means for those who might not know. What is PDA? How would you define it?

I think the things that I see to go into it was any time that you're affectionate with your spouse

out in public. And there's things that I think we all see people do, like holding hands, may have the arm around another.

Maybe people get more uncomfortable if it's kissing or if it's any kind of touching or groping or, you know, those kind of things.

But I think it's any time that you're giving affection to your spouse, out in public or other people can see it.

And some people, it's cultural in a lot of

ways. And I think there's some people are more comfortable with than others, but it's, you know,

something that's out there. Yeah, definitely. And we all have different comfort levels, like you said,

about what to do with this public displays of affection. And the truth of the matter is, like,

you're married, you're going to have displays of affections, but what is okay and isn't okay to do when others are

around? So that's kind of where the PDA comes into place and what that means. So Dr. Graham,

how often do you think couples are not on the same page about PDA and what's comfortable?

I just, I think it's a lot.

You know, and I think part of it is family of origin.

I think it's what it really goes back with.

And like Nancy and are a great example because I had a very touchy family.

We hugged a lot.

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