Best of Podcast - Ask Dr. Kim: Do married couples have to sleep in the same bed?
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This is an Ask Dr. Kim segment that originally aired last year on the Awesome Marriage Podcast. People submit their questions about love, relationships, and marriage to Dr. Kim and he answers them.We are highlighting this podcast again to share Dr. Kim's answers to common marriage questions.
In this episode Dr. Kim answers the question: Do married couples have to sleep in the same bed?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to today's Awesome Marriage Instant Classic podcast. |
| 0:24.1 | This podcast aired last year. |
| 0:26.0 | I wanted us to highlight it again because it's a question I get asked a lot. |
| 0:29.7 | In this podcast, Christine and I talk about the question, do married couples have to sleep in the same bed? |
| 0:35.6 | I know you're going to enjoy this awesome marriage instant classic |
| 0:38.1 | podcast. Welcome to this segment of asked Dr. Kim today. Today our question is do married couples |
| 0:46.2 | have to sleep in the same bed? What are your thoughts, Dr. Kim? Should this be a rule? Do you |
| 0:51.4 | generally recommend that couple sleep in the same bed? |
| 0:58.9 | Well, the easy answer is yes. I mean, because I do. And I think most couples start out, |
| 1:03.8 | they're married to sleeping in the same bed. Obviously, a lot of for sexual, but just beginning to do that, but there's something that there's a closeness that happens there. And I think that |
| 1:09.0 | it's, it's, it's a bonding. It's something happens by sleeping |
| 1:12.5 | in the same bed. And I think you lose that. You lose six, seven, eight hours of connection. And you |
| 1:17.5 | might think, okay, I'm asleep. Yeah, you're asleep, but there is something. You know, |
| 1:20.4 | we were talking before the podcast and the times when one of us is out of town and you know and i'm just used to have a nancy close to me because we sleep really |
| 1:27.8 | close together and you know i wake up in the middle of the night and i've reached over i'm just |
| 1:31.4 | getting a couple of cheat i mean you something develops and something happens in that by spending |
| 1:36.2 | the time and spending you know sleeping together and same that i agree i think there's like this |
| 1:41.2 | oneness that kind of happens right right, even when you're asleep. |
| 1:44.2 | And it's just like another opportunity for connection. And I agree. I think generally, I recommend |
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