Building a Happy Marriage - Interview with Kelly Flanagan | Ep. 110

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast we welcome special guests Kelly Flanagan with us. Kelly Flanagan is a clinical psychologist and author and speaker. Kelly writes about personal transformation, marriage, parenting, community, mindfulness and gratitude, grace, the power of story, and the discovery of purpose.

Kelly joins Dr. Kim today as they talk how to build a happy marriage. They share about the importance of not wasting time “working on your marriage” when you can be “building” it.

Tune in below to learn more about what that means and how it can impact your marriage for the better!

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You can read more great insights from Kelly on his website. Purchase Loveable here. You can also follow Kelly on Twitter and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.
0:09.7	I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.
0:11.9	On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.
0:15.6	To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage.
0:23.7	Welcome today's Awesome Marriage podcast. We are so happy to welcome Kelly Flanagan back. This month at Awesome Marriage, we're talking about
0:27.2	habits of healthy couples, and we're going to talk about today about building a happy marriage.
0:32.6	Kelly, welcome back to Awesome Marriage Podcast. It's so good to have you again. Oh, thank you for
0:36.2	having me back. Yeah, we had so much fun before and I'm excited about this one and really, really good.
0:42.8	On Untangled, we talked about last time your blog on Dr. Kelly Flanagan.com. One of the blogs that
0:49.0	stuck out was one where you talked about how we shouldn't waste time working on our marriage,
0:53.6	but that rather we
0:54.4	should build a marriage. So we have to create something out of nothing. Talk a little about that,
0:59.1	kind of that whole concept. I love the whole idea. Yeah, yeah. Well, so I'm glad you to like that one.
1:05.6	As a writer, you know, there are some favorite pieces of writing that you have. Sure. And some get more attention than others.
1:12.4	It's one of my favorites.
1:13.8	Maybe because the piece actually came out of our second, my wife and my second honeymoon
1:19.0	trip.
1:20.6	And it came out of this idea that we were, you know, we were going to try to do a second
1:26.0	honeymoon and have it be perfect, whereas the first one
1:29.4	wasn't. And then we got to the, to the resort and churning up the places under construction,
1:34.9	which explained the low price. And so there was that temptation to be like, oh, no, this is
1:41.2	supposed to be perfect. But we wound up really embracing the
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