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 podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.

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

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most

intimate relationship. Welcome to this awesome marriage instant classic podcast. This is a podcast

that aired last year that we wanted to highlight again because so many couples deal with this

in their families. Having a family member that speaks poorly of your spouse

can be very dangerous and put a strain on your marriage. It can be difficult to know how to deal

with this family issue. In this episode, Christine and I discuss this issue and how to handle it.

Please enjoy this awesome marriage instant classic podcast. This month, the awesome marriage, we're talking about family issues when it comes to marriage.

And today we're going to be specifically talking about a very specific issue.

We're going to be talking about family speaking negative about your spouse.

So, Dr. Kim, what do we mean when we say family speaking negative about yourself?

Like, give us some examples of how this might play out.

Yeah, because I think it

happens in a lot of different ways. I think sometimes we're really aware of it. If it's overt,

like if someone is just saying something really bad about your spouse or say, you know,

they're never going to mount anything. Why do you stay in the relationship? Things like that.

You know, we're going to be the overt things we notice. I think it's some of the more subtle things that we don't notice that, you know,

maybe your parent comes over and they bring you a new pair of shoes and they say,

hey, I got these new shoes for you because I know your husband would never be able to afford

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