Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and

practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

Today we were talking about building trust. Trust isn't something that just happens over time.

You have to proactively and intentionally build it. Dr. Kim, why is trust so essential in a marriage?

When you really think about it, what happens when you don't trust somebody? You kind of hold back.

You have a tendency to protect yourself. You're not as vulnerable. You're not transparent.

And all of those things are things we want in a marriage. We want to feel protected and be able to be

vulnerable, transparent, all those things. And so it just eliminates those things out of a marriage

and limits a marriage to what it can be. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I think it's important to

kind of know, like, define what trust is and to kind of understand the nature of trust. I was looking this up

and I found it so interesting. So in the Bible, one of the terms for trust, I'm going to book,

I'm not going to pretend to know how to pronounce it, but I'll give you my best guess is batatch.

And that's a word for trust. It's used in the Old Testament. And the meaning of it is careless.

So like when you trust your

spouse, you feel safe with them that you can be careless. You can be free of concern. And I just

love that definition of if you really trust someone, you can be free of concern. You can be like

what you said, Dr. Kim, you can be vulnerable and you don't have to self-protect. I think that's so good

because I think we all want to be able to know that we're loved and cared for no matter what,

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