Crazy Or Just Different? How Personalities Affect Your Marriage | Ep. 300
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever looked at your spouse and thought - "this person is crazy!" Well you aren't alone! We are all so different and come with different backgrounds and different personalities. It's easy to think others are just like us and when they do something you wouldn't - to think they're nuts.
In this podcast episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk all about that and how these personality differences affect our marriage and how to navigate them.
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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. All right. Have you ever looked at your spouse and thought, |
| 0:27.6 | this person is crazy? Well, you are not alone. We are all so different and come from different |
| 0:33.4 | backgrounds and have different personalities. And it's easy to think that others that are not like us are a little nuts and so today we're going to be talking about how our different |
| 0:41.7 | personalities affect our marriage and how to navigate this I love talking about |
| 0:45.6 | personalities and so I'm super pumped for today's episode and getting Dr. Kim's thoughts |
| 0:49.5 | on all things personality so Dr. Hamm why well our different personalities make us feel a little crazy |
| 0:55.9 | like the other person's nuts? Well, I think we just finally, and sometimes we don't realize, |
| 1:01.7 | I mean, I think we realize that growing up and different people interact with, but when you start |
| 1:05.1 | married and you start living with somebody and you see something like, but we are different |
| 1:09.3 | and we act different and we process different. |
| 1:12.0 | And that doesn't mean the other person is crazy or that they think you're crazy because they say |
| 1:16.8 | you're crazy. It's just that we're different. And so I think one is learning how the more we can |
| 1:22.4 | learn about different personalities is great because the more I learn about Nancy's personality, |
| 1:27.4 | the better equipped I am |
| 1:28.4 | to communicate with her, to do life with her and things like that. Because if I, I think we all, |
| 1:33.4 | you know, I don't know any couple that I've ever worked with in premarral that didn't say the words, |
| 1:38.1 | we are so much alike. I mean, they, but in that early part of a relationship, for most couples, |
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