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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Defining Your Real Marriage Problem | Ep. 459

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Christianity, Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Marriage issues live in our minds, hearts, bedrooms and thought lives. We may be too close to the problem to know what the real issue is. Over his years as a counselor, Dr. Kim says it's really common that couples can feel the tension, but they can't seem to figure out what's really causing it. Tune in today as Dr. Kim and Christina help you learn to find the causes underneath the symptomatic problems, so that you can truly heal and grow. 

 

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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 build an awesome marriage.

0:10.1

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

0:12.2

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

0:15.0

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

0:18.7

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

0:27.2

If you're experiencing conflict in your marriage, it's important to know and define what the

0:34.5

conflict is. Oftentimes, we end up just treating and dealing with the symptoms of

0:39.3

our conflict and we don't ever really figure out what that true issue is and get to the root of the

0:44.3

problem, the foundation of the problem to define it, to know it, and to solve it. So that's what we're

0:49.7

going to be talking about today is defining your real marriage problem. And hey, if you've been listening

0:54.0

to the

0:54.3

podcast for a while and haven't left a rating or review of the podcast yet, please do so today.

0:59.5

It is a real gift to the ministry of awesome marriage when you do that. And it helps more couples

1:03.7

find the show and is the best way to support the show. So do that today if you haven't already.

1:09.4

So, Dr. Kim, do you find that oftentimes in the

1:12.8

counseling room a couple can't really see or know the real foundational problem? Yes, I think it's

1:18.9

really common. I just I just think it is. We know there's a problem and maybe we focused on

1:23.9

something that it's not or the fight or other things. But no, I think it's a very common

1:28.3

problem. Yeah. Why do you think that is? I think we get into this patterns of fighting, and so you get

1:34.1

into who wins, who loses, who said this or who said that. And we focus on the fight and not really

1:40.4

the issue, trying to figure out what the issue is, and the issue may, I think a lot of

1:44.8

times is deeper than what's on the surface. You know, we know we're fighting, but we really don't know,

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