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.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven

Secrets to an Awesome Marriage.

Mill Smith is the innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the

innovation director at Awesome Marriage.

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Marriage. I want to welcome you today to Awesome Marriage Podcast. We are excited to have

Kyle and Kelly back with us again. If you missed them last week, go back to listen to that

podcast as they share their story, story of impidelity, and then God's healing. And so Kyle answered a lot of

things last time, talked about, and they shared many important things. And Kelly, I want to start with

you this week. And just in that whole thing, after Kyle confessed, what got to the point of

deciding I am going to forgive him?

You know, it was an internal battle.

I knew, I didn't want to tell him this, but when he confessed to me,

and I knew immediately that I was going to have to forgive him because I loved him and I wanted our marriage to work.

But it was a battle that I had to talk. God and I

had a lot of conversations because I was bad. I was angry. And I had to make that choice with

myself that I can either use anger as a weapon and have a marriage where I can make him submissive

and attack him every day with that anger and that weapon. Or do I want a marriage where I can make him submissive and attack him every day with that anger

in that weapon or do I want a marriage where God can work in it but I have to forgive and I

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