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.

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 to an Awesome marriage instant classic podcast.

This podcast aired last year.

We wanted to highlight it again because it's something that we all can struggle with.

In this podcast, Christina and I discuss the distraction of selfishness and how to make sure it doesn't cause trouble for your marriage.

We share common issues of selfiness and give practical examples of what to do to make

your selfishness does not eat away at your marriage.

I hope you enjoy this edition of an awesome marriage instant classic podcast.

This month at Awesome Marriage, we're talking about distractions in marriage.

Each week on the podcast, we've been sharing

one common distraction in marriage and how to keep that distraction from messing up your marriage.

Today's distraction is selfishness. Dr. Kim, how is selfishness a distraction when it comes to our

marriages? I think right off it just puts me when I'm selfish in the wrong position people have heard us

talk forever about God first spouse second well when I'm selfish I put myself about both of those

and and so I'm just from a not a good standpoint from the beginning when I get selfish in my

marriage it's just I'm thinking of myself first.

I'm not caring what Nancy thinks, really, because, I mean, maybe a little bit,

but not as much as what I think.

And so it just puts things out of balance. And I think it puts our spouse in a real difficult position because depending on the

temperament of your spouse, they're either going to get upset at you or angry or

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