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 of the great response received

the first time it aired. We've all dealt with comparison online and the angst that it can bring. The comparison online isn't just a U issue.

It can affect your marriage.

In this episode, Christine and I talk about how to protect your marriage for comparison online.

Please enjoy this awesome marriage instant classic podcast.

This month, awesome marriage, we've been talking about different ways to guard your marriage online.

Each week on the podcast, we've been sharing one way that you can guard your marriage online.

Today, we're going to be talking specifically about protecting your marriage from the woes of comparison online.

Comparison truly is the thief of joy.

And with social media at all of our fingertips and the desire to look good online, the temptation for comparison in some ways is harder today than it ever has been before. Depression and suicide

rates are increasing and many people are linking these things to the sometimes damaging

effects of social media and online issues when it comes to comparing ourselves to others. So the issue

of comparison online

definitely trickles into all of our marriages and it's an important topic for us to discuss today.

So Dr. Kim, why do you think we're so tempted to compare ourselves to others when we see things online?

I think comparison's always been a problem for people, but now it's so easy to compare.

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