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.

Diane asked Dr. Kim. Our question is, I'm not okay with some of my spouse's health habits. What should I do about it.

What a tricky subject and just a tricky thing to be walking through when you're not okay with some of the things that your spouse is doing when it comes to their health or if they're

not honoring their health or their body enough.

What are your thoughts, Dr. Kim?

You know, and I was thinking of some couples this way, as I thought about this question,

that really didn't know

those were issues until they got married. They weren't things that they were aware of before.

Now, I think sometimes there would be. You know, if your husband doesn't bathe your future husband,

eventually you're going to figure out, this guy didn't smell real good.

Yeah. But some of those things. So like anything else, I think it's got to be on the table. You have to talk about that.

It can be sensitive, you know, and especially, and maybe it's something, maybe the hit like someone has

body odor and they've tried to do stuff about it and just one of those people that they continue

to have some body order. So maybe the discussion there helps you understand better or helps you

try to solve it together. But I think you want helps you understand better or helps you try to

solve it together. But I think you want to talk about it, but you don't do it like you stink

or you haven't brushed your teeth in a week or, you know, don't come off condemning. It's just,

and I think what you kind of alluded to, they're just some concern. You know, these aren't really

healthy. I want you around a long time.

I don't want your teeth looking bad. I don't want, you know, all these kind of things to take care of yourself, the way you eat, you know, those kind of things really can be a problem

over time. So I think, again, having that conversation and prayerfully asking God to give you the right words to talk about some of those things.

Yeah, and I do. I think it's just, it's so hard walking through this.

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