Boundaries For Your Marriage: What They Are And Why They Are Important
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today we're kicking off a series about boundaries in marriage. What they are, what they are not, and why they are essential in a healthy marriage. We get a lot of questions on the topic, and in this series we will share the types of boundaries that can help a marriage, and how to implement them. This series will be full of practical applications and we'd love to answer your questions.
Episode highlights include:
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What can boundaries do for your marriage?
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What can they NOT do?
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Dr. Kim's take on an age old example of physical affection at unwelcome times
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
RESOURCES
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Our Conflict Resolution Cheat Sheet contains 25 of Dr. Kim's best tips to help you fight fair and resolve conflict well
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Learn all about how to set healthy boundaries for your marriage with our Building Better Boundaries For Your Marriage online course. Dr. Kim covers why and how and gives practical tips and examples to help you put them in place.
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For more help troubleshooting the conflict in your marriage, our Conflict Solving Survey and Workbook helps evaluate where you are now, see where you want to grow, and learn how to get from here to there.
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In today's episode we mentioned this: How to Set Boundaries in One-Sided Marriage | Ep. 505. In it we give more biblical context for boundaries.
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Our 4-day YouVersion plan on Boundaries in Marriage can help you put healthy boundaries into practice.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:27.8 | Today on the podcast, we're kicking off a series about boundaries in marriage, what they are, what they are not, and why they are essential in a healthy marriage. |
| 0:39.5 | This series is going to be full of practical applications and boundaries can take practice to do well. So if you have not already, |
| 0:45.6 | subscribe to our podcast email so that you will get the bonus content that comes with each episode. |
| 0:50.5 | We write application questions for every single episode to make the content more |
| 0:54.8 | actionable and accessible. So the link to sign up for the podcast emails is in our show |
| 1:00.3 | notes wherever you're listening. And we do have a bonus resource when you sign up. So check that |
| 1:05.7 | out today if you haven't already. So Dr. Kim, what are boundaries? I think it's a great question. And really, |
| 1:13.9 | I think a lot of times we don't really know. We set out boundaries that may be really |
| 1:19.5 | into boundaries or punishment for our spouse. So I was looking for a kind of a definition. |
| 1:25.0 | I always like what Cloud and Townsend do. The name's Sharon Martin gave this, and I really like this. |
| 1:30.0 | A boundary is an imaginary line that separates me from you. |
| 1:33.3 | It separates your physical space, your feelings, needs, and responsibility from others. |
| 1:37.0 | Your boundaries also tell other people how they can treat you. |
| 1:40.0 | What's acceptable and what isn't. |
| 1:41.6 | Without boundaries, people may take advantage of you because you |
| 1:44.5 | haven't set limits about how you expect to be treated. And I think in essence that really, it is a |
| 1:49.3 | imaginary line. It's to help both you and the other person. It's to help someone, you know, |
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