Continued Education: Learning As You Change | Ep. 274
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest obstacles to being truly known is the fact that we change. We all change over time. Which is why it's so important that when it comes to our spouse, we all enlist in continued education.
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk specifically about how learn as you change. They share how to cope with change in your spouse when you don't like it, different ways to view change, and how to change in a way that allows your marriage to flourish instead of drift a part.
Tune in to learn more about how to be a student of your spouse!
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
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"Are you aware of the changes in your spouse, do you guys communicate and talk about it?" -Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"Having a daily time to communicate will help you keep up with your spouse." -Dr. Kim Kimberling
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. This one, the awesome marriage, we've been talking about a concept that Dr. |
| 0:28.0 | Kim likes to talk about a lot, which is being a student of your spouse. And so today we're going to be |
| 0:32.3 | talking specifically about learning as you change. One of the obstacles of really being known by your spouse and knowing |
| 0:38.9 | your spouse well is the fact that, well, we change. We're constantly changing, which is one of the |
| 0:44.2 | main reasons that Dr. Kim is always encouraging us to the importance of being a student of our spouse. |
| 0:49.7 | And so Dr. Kim, what are some examples of changes you have seen in couples over the years that may cause issues in a marriage if we don't continue to learn our spouse. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, because we all do change. Absolutely. I mean, we do, whether we like it or not, but we like our spouse change or not, we all change. |
| 1:05.5 | And now, it can be, you know, see people changing their faith, maybe their faith deepens, or maybe it changes and struggling with their faith. Maybe what we like and what we not like, you know, what we value |
| 1:14.1 | most. Maybe what we valued at one time, we value something else is more. You know, it's like, |
| 1:18.4 | you know, sometimes it can be as simple as something we love to eat all the time. We don't like |
| 1:22.7 | to eat anymore. And so now we want to eat something different and your spouse still likes that. And what is wrong with you? |
| 1:27.7 | We used to eat that all the time. |
| 1:28.6 | And you know, you know, and I think sometimes like with us, you know, when our kids |
| 1:32.6 | were at home, we valued time with them. |
| 1:34.4 | We valued stuff in a way. |
| 1:35.7 | And then as kids, we got empty nest. |
| 1:37.6 | Then they kind of, our focus changed. |
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