Boundaries Within Your Marriage | Ep. 546
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
There are several types of boundaries that you need to have within your marriage. Chances are you already have some. But there may be pain points in your marriage that healthy boundaries can help. Today we cover a lot of ground as we get into the details of some boundaries that may be needed within your marriage to help you, your spouse and your marriage be your healthiest.
Episode highlights include:
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Ways to approach a conversation about free time and hobbies without a fight
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The most common areas where most couples might need boundaries
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Signs that you need a boundary in a given area
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How NOT to do your budget together
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Plus - Do you have a hobby to answer my question at the end of the episode? I'm so curious - there's bound to be one!
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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Get 25 of Dr Kim's best conflict resolution tips in our Conflict Resolution Cheat Sheet!
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Our new Boundaries Guide helps you decide where and how to start applying this content to your marriage.
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Our friends Dan & Kay at Centsei can help you set a budget and stick with good financial boundaries.
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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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We talk to a lot of couples who don't know what makes them a great team, so we created Team You & Me: A Guide to Approaching Your Marriage as a Team, to help you be more intentional to tap into all God has for you in the gift of your marriage.
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. |
| 0:28.5 | There are several types of boundaries that you need to have within your marriage. |
| 0:32.9 | And chances are you already have a lot of them, even if you haven't had an official conversation with your spouse about them. But there may be some pain points in your marriage that can be helped by |
| 0:42.0 | implementing healthy boundaries. Today we're getting into the dirty details of some boundaries |
| 0:46.9 | that might be needed within your marriage to help you, your spouse, and your marriage be your |
| 0:51.9 | healthiest. We're so glad you're joining us today. So, |
| 0:55.1 | Dr. Kim, what are some types of boundaries that are needed inside a marriage? Well, the boundaries |
| 1:00.6 | are needed inside of a marriage. And I think, as you were saying, Lindsay, I think a lot of couples |
| 1:04.7 | don't really know that they've really already established some boundaries. I think we did that |
| 1:08.5 | in a lot of our marriage before we ever understood what boundaries really were all about. And so some boundaries that I think are needed. I think physical |
| 1:15.5 | and emotional space were kind of different in that, usually in couples. We need time alone. We need |
| 1:21.2 | time to think and process. We need time to rest. And if you're at a different level there, |
| 1:25.2 | you've got to figure that out so that both of you can get |
| 1:28.7 | those needs met the way they need to be met. In sex, sexual relationship, boundaries, what's okay, |
| 1:34.4 | what's not okay, timing, when, where, all those kind of things. Just in the things we do daily |
| 1:41.3 | around the home with parenting and who does this and who does that and chores and quality time, making sure that's set aside and what are the boundaries we need to set to make sure we get quality time. |
| 1:52.1 | In our relationships with each other and with others, trust, fidelity, what do we need to make sure those things are going on consistently in our |
| 2:03.8 | relationship? Yeah, those are great. Those are all, as you're saying them, it seems obvious that |
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