Choosing Marriage - Interview with Debra Fileta | Ep. 205
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast we welcome back special guest Debra Fileta. Debra is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in dating, marriage, and relationship issues.
Debra joins Dr. Kim as they talk about Debra's new book, Choosing Marriage. In her book, Choosing Marriage, Debra talks about the beautiful exchange that occurs when spouses learn what it means to choose "we" before "me." Her book is super practical and sure to help many couples! It walks through 8 significant choices involved in taking marriage from hard to great.
Tune in to learn more about these 8 choices that could impact your marriage in great ways!
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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. |
| 0:15.7 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome to Awesome Marriage Podcast. Today we welcome back, Debra Fletta. Debra was on the podcast two years ago when we discussed the book |
| 0:28.2 | True Love Dates and it's an honor to have you back today. It's great to have your friendship |
| 0:32.7 | and to stay connected. So welcome to Awesome Marriage Podcast. Thank you so much. It's good to be with you |
| 0:37.9 | today. I'm excited to catch up. Well, we're excited about that too and about choosing marriage, |
| 0:42.5 | the new book, and it's going to be released the first of May. And in choosing marriage, you talk about |
| 0:47.5 | the exchange that occurs when spouses learn what it means to choose we time before me time, |
| 0:53.9 | which is I love the way you put that. |
| 0:55.9 | The book is practical. |
| 0:57.1 | It's going to help so many couples. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm excited to see what people do as they read that. |
| 1:01.1 | They begin to apply those things to their lives. |
| 1:03.7 | It goes through eight significant choices involved in taking marriage from hard to great. |
| 1:08.8 | And I love that too, just that that picture there of, hey, |
| 1:12.7 | our marriage can really be great. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's interesting. The formula that kind of |
| 1:19.8 | stuck out to me as I was writing this book is we is greater than me. And I think that's something |
| 1:26.2 | that before you get into marriage, |
| 1:28.5 | you don't really understand what that's going to look like. We is greater than me because |
| 1:34.4 | you've got two single people that have been single their entire lives that have thought about |
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