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 earlier this year that we wanted to highlight again because I hear this issue

playing out in the counseling room so often among couples. Culture traps can plague marriages and

families. In this episode, Christina and

I discussed the culture trap of pleasure over purpose. Our culture values pleasure and seeking

pleasure over a purpose and a purposeful life. In this episode, we share how culture pushes this

and how it can hurt your marriage if you fall into this trap. Please enjoy this awesome marriage

instant, classic podcast.

This month at awesome marriage, we're talking about culture traps that can affect your marriage.

So all month long, we've been focusing on common culture traps that plague marriages.

Today, we're going to be talking about one trap that we've all been pressured by,

which is pleasure over purpose. Our culture

so values pleasure and pleasure seeking and seeking pleasure over purpose and purposeful decisions

and a purposeful life. So Dr. Cam, where do you see culture valuing pleasure over purpose? It seems

like it's almost everywhere. You know, everywhere you look. I mean, that's kind of what

advertisements tell us to do. It's, I don't know, just like it's almost everywhere. You know, everywhere you look. I mean, that's kind of what advertisements tell us to do. It's, uh, I don't know, just like there's that cultural feel. And so I

think it's easy. And plus the pleasure, even though it doesn't do things long term for us,

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