Best of Podcast: Ask Dr. Kim - What do you do when your spouse leaves you?
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This is a replay of an Ask Dr. Kim segment on the Awesome Marriage Podcast. People submit their questions about love, relationships, and marriage to Dr. Kim and he answers them.
In this episode Dr. Kim answers the question: What do you do when your spouse leaves you?
Tune in to this "Best of Podcast" find out!
RESOURCES
When He Leaves: Help and Hope for Hurting Wives by Kari West
Transcript
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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 this awesome marriage instant classic podcast. This is a podcast |
| 0:28.4 | that aired last year and we wanted to highlight it again because unfortunately people find |
| 0:32.8 | themselves in this situation when their spouse leaves them. If your spouse has left you, I pray this gives |
| 0:37.9 | you comfort and practical steps. If your spouse hasn't left you, please tune in so that you can |
| 0:42.5 | better understand friends who are walking through this. Please enjoy this awesome marriage instant |
| 0:46.9 | classic podcast. Today on Ask Dr. Kim, we're going to be talking about kind of a somber topic, |
| 0:52.8 | a hard topic, one that is probably a little controversial to talk about, but we're going to be talking about kind of a somber topic, a hard topic, one that is |
| 0:54.5 | probably a little controversial to talk about, but we're going to dive on into it because it is a |
| 0:58.1 | question that we get asked sometimes. We got messaged by someone who said, my sauce left me, |
| 1:03.3 | but I'm still praying and hoping for restoration. What do I do in the waiting? And what do you |
| 1:08.7 | do when your spouse leaves you? We get this question a lot. |
| 1:16.9 | So Dr. Kim, good question. What is the biblical godly thing to do when your spouse leaves you? |
| 1:22.8 | Is there a general protocol for this? I think it's a really tough question. I think, you know, someone would come to me and that's happened, but look at what the circumstances were. You know, |
| 1:26.4 | why did the spouse leave? Where did they go? Have they gone off with someone else? Uh, |
| 1:31.0 | how did they end at? All those kind of things. Um, so I, I think first, if you're |
| 1:36.0 | spousal leave, you've got to take, you've got to know it's okay to take care of yourself. |
| 1:39.4 | And I, I think you lean into God. I think you pray. I think you get the help you need. You're going through a huge grief situation of that time. |
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