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.

I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most

intimate relationship. Words can speak life or death. The words we allow to surround ourselves

absolutely end up affecting us. The atmosphere around us and the words spoken to us and around us

penetrate into our hearts and into our minds. It is so easy for the

thoughts of a friend to become the thoughts that you believe, whether those thoughts are true or not.

We all have been around people who constantly tear down the opposite sex or husbands or wives

specifically, but what do we do when we encounter those people? That is the question. So today

we're going to be talking about husband bashers and wife to deal with those types of people. So Dr. Kim, why are we even

talking about this topic today? Why is it important to address this? I think it's because it's out

there for one thing. And we want to touch things that affect people. And I think there's, you know,

there's so much power in the tongue. Bible talks about that and the tongue can be used for good or evil. And we are influenced what people say. And I think the tendency for us most of the time is like if I'm talking somebody in their bashing down their wife and I'm too, well, Nancy's a good wife, I'm going to be more influenced by what he said than he is what I said. You know. It just seems like we go to the negative, have a tendency to do that.

And so I think being aware of that and helping people, if you're in a situation where someone

is, or you can't call it, how do we get out of that?

How do we handle that situation?

I think is really important because it's out there.

I'm here in the counseling room.

You know, we're talking a little bit before. I mean, we have a number of friends that have been ready a long time, and I don't hear

in that band. Maybe we are in a bubble. But the council room, I hear it. I hear it a lot, you know,

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