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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Avoid These 3 Premarital Mistakes: #1 Ignoring Red Flags | Ep. 531

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

 

What are some of the major mistakes we hope couples avoid during dating and engagement? Today we're looking at a big one: Ignoring red flags. Thankfully, Dr. Kim has counseled so many engaged couples over the years, and has created our Preparing For Marriage online course. So today he sheds light on several common red flags and how to deal with them. Spoiler alert: No matter where you are today, there is hope! 

Episode highlights include: 

  • Do red flags mean you have to call off the engagement?
  • Dr. Kim shares several common red flags he sees in counseling 
  • How to address the red flags - before AND after marriage

We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage. 

 

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here! 

 

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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. His passion is to help you

0:23.4

strengthen your most intimate relationship. Today on the awesome marriage podcast, we're talking

0:31.7

about major premarital mistakes to avoid. The big mistake we're talking about today is ignoring red flags. Dr. Kim has a lot

0:40.2

of wisdom on this as a marriage counselor. He has counseled engaged in married couples for the past 35 plus

0:45.8

years and he's written our prep for marriage online course. So today we're digging in to the first

0:52.1

major mistake to avoid. So Dr. Kim, what are some red flags for

0:56.4

engaged couples? There's probably a lot if we really stop and think about it and some unique to the

1:02.4

different couples. But I think a lot of times, most couples that I work with in premarral, the

1:06.5

some extent I think, you know, they hear the stories of the divorce rates and they hear all this

1:10.4

stuff and they think they're going to be different, but they don't know that there's going to take work to do that. Yes, every couple can be different. But I think one of the red flags would be is just thinking, we're going to be different, but we're not going to do, you know, we're just going to keep loving each other and this kind of stuff. I think another thing that that I see play out sometimes is if they don't have

1:28.1

the support of the people that love them and that they love that are around them. If you're

1:32.8

family of origin, your friends, if they're against your marriage, should that be a red flag

1:38.3

that you look at? Do they see something, especially if there's some consistency there?

1:42.7

I think another one is because we see this play out in couples,

1:47.0

but being unniqually yoked, you know, if you are a believer

1:50.2

and you're dating someone or wanting to marry someone that's not,

1:53.8

and just kind of ignoring that and thinking we won't have problems from that,

1:57.9

I think that's a red flag that should be looked at.

2:00.8

And I think the thing we talk about all the time,

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