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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Avoid These 3 Premarital Mistakes: #3 Unrealistic Expectations | Ep. 533

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What are some of the major mistakes we hope couples avoid during dating and engagement? Today we're talking all about unrealistic expectations. How can we tell when our expectations are unrealistic, and what can we do to keep them from becoming an issue in our relationships? 

This one trips up about every couple at some point, so even if you're married, this episode will be helpful to recognize, and deal with our expectations in a healthy and helpful way. Tune in for all the details on how not to let this major mistake wreck your relationship. We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage!

Episode highlights include: 

  • We share several of the common unrealistic expectations we've seen as well as several we've had in our own marriages
  • How to tell if your expectations are realistic or not 
  • We give a simple process to work through these together 

*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

0:31.4

about pre-marriage mistakes to avoid. Mistake number three that we're talking about today

0:36.8

is unrealistic expectations.

0:39.4

So if you missed mistakes number one and two, make sure you go back and listen to those.

0:43.3

But Dr. Kim has a lot of wisdom from counseling engaged and married couples for the past

0:47.8

35 plus years.

0:49.7

And he's also written our Prep for Marriage online course, which is so helpful for anyone

0:53.9

who's engaged

0:54.6

or getting ready for marriage. Today we're digging into this third major mistake, unrealistic

1:00.0

expectations. So Dr. Kim, let's talk about unrealistic expectations. How common are they?

1:06.0

I think they're very common. I think we're all vulnerable to doing that. And I think a lot of things that happen

1:12.0

with people, couples who are engaged is, you know, we have these expectations maybe about

1:17.4

marriage and what it would be. And maybe our ideas are different. We don't talk about that.

1:23.2

Maybe we have expectations of our future spouse. And then we get upset and frustrated when they don't meet them.

1:30.2

But we've never told them.

1:31.2

We've never given a chance to talk about it.

1:32.8

So yeah, I think unrealistic expectations are common, not only pre-marital, but really in marriage

1:38.2

a lot.

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