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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith.

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Welcome today to Awesome Marriage Instant Classic podcast. This podcast aired last year. We wanted to highlight it again because it's a great

tip. I want every couple to know and to implement. In this podcast, Christina and I talk about one way

to stop fighting with your spouse. What's your tone? We talk about how to practically be mindful of your tone in marriage

and how it can eliminate a lot of fights in your marriage.

Please enjoy this awesome marriage instant.

Classic podcast.

This week on the podcast, we're doing a mini series on three ways to stop fighting with your spouse.

So we'll be going over one way each day that you can stop

fighting with your spouse and just have less stress and conflict in your marriage. So today's way

to stop fighting with your spouse is watch your tone. So Dr. Kim, I feel like this is a huge issue

in a lot of marriages. It's just so easy to use the wrong tone or to have a negative attitude

and all of a sudden a big fight ensues

because your spouse got an attitude with you or vice versa. It's a huge issue. So why do you think it is

so easy for us and such a common issue that we're getting an attitude with our spouse, Dr. Kim?

You know, the person more closest to usually is our spouse or should be our spouse. And so I think

when you're in a close relationship, different things can happen.

It may be expectations.

It may be, you know, and if you're comfortable someone and you know that they love you,

sometimes you let your guard down too much, but I've seen sometimes it is too much.

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