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.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

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

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So this month, the Awesome Marriage, we're talking about the hard topic of divorce. Here at Awesome Marriage, we want every

marriage to work. And we truly do believe that God can restore any marriage. We've seen

that happen 100,000 times. But the ugly truth is divorce does happen. And though God hates divorce, he certainly does not

hate divorced people. So although we're not a huge fan of divorce, we're not supporting divorce,

we do want to provide some gospel-centered wisdom for how to deal with it if you find yourself

in that place. So today we're going to be talking specifically about communicating your divorce to loved ones. And so I do want to just caveat a little bit further here that we want to be really clear here at Awesome Marriage that we're not for divorce. We're not advocating divorce. But we just want to shed some gospel hope for those people that find themselves there. And maybe they didn't even want to be there. So that's kind of

the position we're coming from here. So with that being said, Dr. Kim, who needs to hear about your

divorce from you specifically? What loved ones needs, does this need to be communicated to? Sure. No,

I think that's something that's really important to decide and maybe prayerfully decide and maybe just

sit down and make a list. Okay, who are the really people that are important to decide and maybe prayerfully decide and maybe just sit down

and make a list okay who are the really people that are important to you in your life who are the

people that really need to hear from you because of your relationship with them and that you want to be

the first to tell them you want to be the one to be able to answer questions uh explain to them you know

and you know maybe just if you think about your family,

you know, if you're young and you're going through a divorce, I mean, how you communicate that

maybe to a grandparent may be different than you communicate it to your parent, the questions they

may have, the way they look at you may be different, or maybe unconditional love for you, you know,

all those kind of things. But I think, and then I think

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