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, Kimberly, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. So today on Ask Dr. Kim, the question we're answering is my friends are going

through a divorce. And even though I don't support the divorce, I want to support

them. How do I do that? I love that this person is asking this question because it's so true.

So many of us as Christians are in this difficult position where, you know, we want our friends

to work their marriage out, but they've chosen divorce for whatever reason and maybe it was a

had to kind of thing or not. But it's like, how do you support them without supporting the thing?

And so what do you think, Dr. Kim, what are some ways that we can support a couple going

through a divorce without necessarily condoning it?

Yeah, I think that can be a fine line at times.

But I think it's something most of us are going to go through.

If we haven't already, just with the divorce rate, you will. And the Christian divorce right, we know is high too. So I think when

someone's going to divorce, it is a huge grief thing because something you thought was going to be

great, something you thought was going to go a certain direction all of a sudden hadn't. And I think

sometimes we don't think of divorce is a grief thing. So I think some of the same things you would do with someone that was going through a death.

I mean, because it is a death of that marriage.

So being there for that person and listening to that person, not thinking you have to say some magical thing.

You know, there's just something about when we're in grief, whether it's divorce, death, whatever it is,

just having someone there beside you

makes such a difference. And so I think just being with that person, you've been in a relationship

with this person, you've loved this person, you've been friends with this person, come alongside,

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