Dealing with a Nagging Wife | Ep. 298
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast Dr. Kim and Christina are talking about the "nagging wife." They discuss why this phrase shouldn't be used but still speak to the the tension many couples face of complaining and communicating what we want our spouse to do.
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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. Today we are talking about the nagging wife and we're really putting |
| 0:28.5 | nagging in air quotes here because actually it can be really offensive to use that phrase. |
| 0:33.5 | And the reason being it's only typically used for women. And so that's sexist. |
| 0:38.9 | But many couples do live in this tension of not wanting to be pressured to do things. |
| 0:43.2 | And one spouse complaining too much and it can really wear on our relationship. |
| 0:46.4 | So today we're going to discuss this issue and how to work towards healthier communication. |
| 0:51.0 | So as we opened, Dr. Kim, why is nagging not really the right word to use? And why are we |
| 0:57.0 | not going to use that word in this podcast? I think a lot, that probably a couple thoughts on that. |
| 1:02.0 | One, I think it's a label. And I don't like labels in any way because I think sometimes people |
| 1:06.5 | put a label on them or put a label on their spouse or someone. And that's how they view that person. |
| 1:11.5 | I don't want to look at Nancy like a, quote, nagging wife because she's not, you know, |
| 1:15.6 | even if I feel like, well, she's complaining or something sometime. |
| 1:18.7 | And so I think it's got a negative connotation. |
| 1:21.2 | And I think it just, you know, one of those things in our culture that when someone says, yeah, I've got a wife nagged all the time. And you just put her in a box. |
| 1:28.2 | I mean, it's like you've just got this image of her. Well, she's a lot more than that. I mean, |
| 1:32.1 | maybe they have trouble in their marriage. Maybe she complains or whatever. But I mean, I don't want to |
| 1:38.1 | look at someone's wife as just and put her in that box like that because I know there's got to be a lot more to that person. Plus, as guys, you know, we don't have that label. |
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