Best of Podcast: Ask Dr. Kim- My husband isn't open to counseling, but I think we need it. What do I do?
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Is this your story? We hope this podcast is helpful to you! This podcast aired last year, and we are highlighting it again because we know so many couples find themselves in this situation. In this episode Dr. Kim talks about what to do when you spouse isn't open to counseling.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. Welcome to the marriage instant classic podcast. This is a podcast |
| 0:28.5 | that aired last year that we wanted to highlight again because of the great response we received |
| 0:32.5 | the first time it aired. In this episode, Christina and I discuss how to deal with the fact that you |
| 0:36.9 | need counseling, but your spouse won't go. |
| 0:39.9 | Unfortunately, far too many couples find themselves in this place. |
| 0:43.1 | Tune in for some practical help if this is your story. |
| 0:46.2 | Please enjoy this awesome marriage instant classic podcast. |
| 0:50.1 | Today is an Ask Dr. Kim segment on the Awesome Marriage podcast, and I'm really excited about what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:55.9 | Today, the question that was submitted is my husband is not open to counseling, but I think we need it. |
| 1:01.6 | What do I do? So we end up seeing this a lot here, awesome marriage. We get a lot of emails, a lot of chats about this issue where one spouse wants to go to counseling, but the other does it because either, |
| 1:11.9 | you know, they don't want to put forth the effort, they're concerned about the cost of counseling, |
| 1:16.3 | or they just don't think that they or believe that they need counseling. So Dr. Habe, what do you think? |
| 1:21.6 | Can you force your spouse to go to marriage counseling with you? Is that the answer here? No. I mean, I don't think it is. |
| 1:28.2 | I mean, I guess you could force someone. I was trying to think, I was thinking the three thing about |
| 1:31.7 | this question. Has anybody ever forced their husband? Maybe, maybe it was kind of an ultimatum. |
| 1:37.1 | It probably didn't go real well because they're there. You know, you want them at least to be open |
| 1:41.5 | to the process, you know? And I think a lot of it is that sometimes |
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