Debt’s Toll on Marriage: Interview with Chris Brown | Ep. 27

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast we welcome back special guest Chris Brown with Dr. Kim. Chris Brown is a radio talk show host, pastor and dynamic speaker who speaks on stewardship and intentional living nationwide as a Ramsey Personality. Available on radio stations across the country, Chris Brown’s True Stewardship provides biblical solutions and sound advice for questions on life and money.

Chris joins Dr. Kim today as they talk about debt and what it does to marriages, and how to get out of debt and stay out of it. They share biblical advice on what God teaches about debt as well as real life stories and practical advice.

Tune in below to learn more about debt’s toll on marriages!

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You can follow Chris online at Stewardship. Be sure to follow Chris on Twitter for more great insights on money.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.
0:09.7	I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.
0:15.6	To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage.
0:23.4	Welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast today. We hashtag awesome marriage. Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. Today,
0:28.5	we're really happy to welcome Chris Brown back from Ramsey Solutions. And today we're going to talk about something that is a counselor. I see way too often in marriage and marriage. And that's
0:34.2	the issue of debt in marriage. Chris, welcome back. Yes, thanks for having me.
0:39.3	It's great. So let's talk about why do you think debt causes so much havoc in marriages today?
0:46.4	Well, the biggest thing is it creates a distraction. You've got this obligation in your finances and
0:53.7	you've got this weight. When I think about debt,
0:57.6	I think, how does it happen? It happens when you walk into a mortgage office or you walk into a
1:04.8	showroom for a car. And there's lots of other kinds of debts as well. Maybe it's furniture.
1:12.6	And you ask the wrong question you ask can i make this payment just the wrong question it just is it's uh and so what
1:22.5	people are doing is that oh 300 bucks a month 200 dollars a month and they didn't add them all up. And so what happens is
1:29.0	the average person is walking around carrying a ton of debt, kind of ton of obligation. And they're
1:35.9	driving through life, kind of visualize this with me. They're driving through life living and
1:42.2	driving by looking through the rear view mirror. They're living in the
1:46.5	past. They're paying off things that have already happened and they're, every dollar in their
1:50.9	budget doesn't have an opportunity for the future. It has an obligation to the past. And so,
1:55.8	you know, the research has come out that 88% of people are living paycheck to paycheck or
1:59.8	worse.
2:06.0	And it puts all this weight on the marriage because now when you're throwing the ball with junior, you're trying to drum up business extra income while you're throwing or you're anxious
2:14.0	inside and thinking about the weight and pressure that you're not going to be able to pay some of your bills that month, you're holding that little baby and you can't even focus on how amazing of a miracle that is.
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