Boundaries With The Opposite Sex | Ep. 372
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What does it look like to honor our marriage, protect our marriage, and still have honoring relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ?
So many couples want to know what is okay and not okay when it comes to friendships with the opposite sex.
In this episode, Dr. Kim and Christina share about safe boundaries, why they are important, and how to implement them practically.
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
- "Establishing boundaries with the opposite sex is one of the ways we accomplish the goal of having an awesome marriage." - Dr. Kim
- "Having boundaries in place with the opposite sex protects you and your marriage." - Dr. Kim
- "Never say you can't be tempted; we are all sinners and can be tempted." - Dr. Kim
- "Boundaries aren't a lack of freedom; they're ensuring the safety of your marriage." - Christina
- "You're not going to have a good marriage if you're only thinking about yourself." - Christina
- "A good thing to ask yourself is, 'Am I ok with my spouse seeing this text or email that I'm sending to someone of the opposite sex?'" - Dr. Kim
- "It's much easier to ignite a flame that's already been lit than to start a new fire; don't keep in touch with your ex boyfriends and girlfriends." - Christina
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There is a lot of bad advice out there when it comes to friendships and what it can look like with the opposite sex and a lot of conflicting and confusing messages surrounding this topic when it comes to being married and having friendships with the opposite sex. |
| 0:15.3 | What does it look like to honor our marriage, protect our marriage, and still have honoring relationships with their brother, sisters, and Christ. |
| 0:21.3 | So many couples want to know what is okay and what is not okay when it comes to friendships |
| 0:25.5 | with the opposite sex. |
| 0:26.9 | Well, in this episode, that's what we're going to address. |
| 0:29.0 | Dr. Kim and I are going to share about safe boundaries, why they're so important, and how |
| 0:33.2 | to help implement them practically. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage |
| 0:40.6 | and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:45.0 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:48.2 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:50.9 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. His passion is to |
| 0:56.1 | help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. So Dr. Craig, why is it important to have |
| 1:03.4 | bound to use with the opposite sex when you were married? You know, I was just thinking about |
| 1:07.8 | that question and this whole topic today. I kind of went back to, you know, when you get married, you want a marriage that's going to last a lifetime. You don't get married to having a fair. You don't get married to outside your marriage or do something stupid in your marriage. And so to me, having boundaries the opposite sex is just one of those things, ways that we accomplish what we think we want |
| 1:28.3 | to accomplish when we get married. Take our vows. We commit to this person for the rest of our |
| 1:31.8 | life. And we live in a culture where there's a lot of things that go on that are just kind of |
| 1:38.2 | people turn their back on or they don't really act like it's such a big deal. Well, having a |
| 1:43.7 | relationship with some of the opposite sex is really not healthy for your marriage. |
| 1:47.0 | And so I think learning to put some boundaries in place so that your marriage is protected. |
| 1:52.3 | And the fact is that we're all vulnerable. |
| 1:54.2 | And I think anytime that we think we're not vulnerable, we're setting us up for a problem. |
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