Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage

and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

Well, this month the awesome marriage, we are talking about healing a train wreck marriage.

Today's way to heal a train wreck marriage is to be all in even when they aren't.

So Dr. Kim, what does it mean to be all in your marriage?

I think for me it means divorces off the table.

I think that when Nancy and I made that decision, you're seven or eight, we've talked about

that a lot.

But I think that was a real turning point for us because I think both of us said, okay,

if divorce is off the table, then we either make this something that's going to be good or we just kind of endure each

other for, you know, 50 years, you know, and we did not want to do that. So I think being all in

for us was being willing to work through conflict, learning how to communicate better. I mean,

I think we both were, okay, I said it this way.

You should hear me this way.

And understanding that Nancy might hear something different than the way I say it, having to do that.

So we're going to communication.

Being totally open and transparent with each other.

So there's no secrets anywhere.

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