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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith.

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Well, welcome to today's Awesome Marriage Instant Classic podcast. This podcast aired last year. We wanted to highlight it again because of the

great response received the first time it aired. In this podcast, Christine and I talk about the

seasons of transition. We share real-life examples and personal stories of what seasons of transition looks

like and how to navigate them together in a healthy way. Please join and enjoy this awesome marriage,

instant classic podcast. This month at Awesome Marriage, we're talking about growing through the

seasons of life and marriage. So today we're going to be focusing on

seasons of transition. So Dr. Kim, what are the different seasons of transition that you see a lot

of couples going through when it comes to the counseling room? I think, you know, I think people

have to realize we do go through transitions. I think sometimes especially when we get in a good

spot in life and we can think would it be there. And I was thinking this

morning, I can remember being really young. And, you know, everything did seem to say the same for a long

time. You know, holidays were the same. Have the same people there. Grandparents had both sit

to grandparents and thinking, oh, this is great. And then all of a sudden you begin to, you know,

in 18 months, I lost three grandparents. And so things change,

life changes. And so I think in marriage, the same things happen. I think we, and you get in the

honeymoon phase. And if you have a good first year, you're thinking, obviously it would be that way.

And, you know, if you don't have a great first year, you know, and they think, oh, no, whatever it comes. But I think there's a lot of things that happen.

I mean, work situations, definitely.

You know, what happens if you get a new boss?

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