Covering Each Other's Vulnerabilities | Ep. 425
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk about covering our spouse's vulnerabilities. Too often, we are aware of our spouse's weakness and instead of shielding them or filling in their gaps we just want to fix them.
Dr. Kim shares why it's so important to focus on covering each other's vulnerabilities.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are talking about covering our spouse's vulnerabilities. Too often, we are aware of our |
| 0:15.3 | spouses' weaknesses and instead of shielding them or filling in their gaps, we just want to fix them. |
| 0:22.2 | Well, in this episode, Dr. Kim shares why it's so important to focus on covering each other's vulnerabilities and what it looks |
| 0:26.3 | like to truly be a team in our marriage. We pray you find this episode helpful to you and your |
| 0:31.3 | marriage. Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about |
| 0:37.1 | marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:41.2 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:43.3 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. |
| 0:45.8 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:49.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 1:01.7 | Thank you. His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. So Dr. Kim, what does it mean to cover our spouses' vulnerabilities? |
| 1:06.3 | I think I like to look at it as all of us have strengths and weaknesses. |
| 1:09.4 | And I think in marriage, God's design really is for those to balance each other out. In other words, Nancy and I've |
| 1:14.7 | seen over the years, well, not in an area that I am weak, she seems to be strong. An area |
| 1:18.7 | that she's weak, I seem to be strong. So I think that balances us out. I think it makes |
| 1:24.6 | our marriage better. And so I think we just kind of cover each other's |
| 1:30.4 | vulnerabilities that way. And I think that's one of the great things about marriage and God's |
| 1:35.1 | design. It's so interesting in counseling couples over the years is I see that play out in couples all |
| 1:41.0 | the time. What happens a lot of time is they focus on the weakness |
| 1:45.1 | of the other person and really don't value that they have the strength to balance that out |
| 1:49.7 | until they become critical of the other person's weakness. Exactly, Dr. Kim, I think that's the key |
| 1:54.3 | here. I think far too often that's what we want to do is we see the weakness in our spouse |
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