Don't Lose Yourself In Parenting | Ep. 306
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
One of the things we hear sometimes from spouses, particularly husbands, is that they feel like they lost their spouse when they had children.
It's common for many spouses to feel second rate to their kids, but also feel like their spouse isn't even their spouse any more. Too often we drop too much of ourselves for our children.
We know this is going to be a controversial episode but we want to go here because we get so many emails about this issue. We want to share our thoughts and what Dr. Kim learned over the years that he found to be successful in being a great parent but also not losing all of who you are.
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina discuss how to not lose yourself in parenting.
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Transcript
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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. One of the things we hear sometimes from spouses, particularly husbands, |
| 0:28.7 | is that they feel like they lost their spouse when they had children. It's common for many |
| 0:32.7 | spouses to feel second-right rates to their kids, but also feel like they lost their spouse altogether. |
| 0:38.2 | Too often we drop too much of ourselves for our children. |
| 0:40.8 | I know that this is going to be a controversial episode, but we want to go there because we get |
| 0:44.8 | so many emails about this issue. |
| 0:47.0 | So we want to share our thoughts and what Dr. Kim has learned over the years that he's gone |
| 0:52.5 | to be successful. |
| 0:53.3 | We're going to discuss how to not lose yourself in parenting. |
| 0:57.3 | Dr. Ham, why do you think it's important not to lose yourself in parenting? |
| 1:00.4 | I think when it's the marriage thing out of order, |
| 1:02.9 | we talk all the time about God first, spouse, second, and it doesn't. |
| 1:06.2 | You know, and I think people for some reason think, |
| 1:09.3 | okay, when I have kids, oh, it's God first, kids, |
| 1:11.3 | and then my spouse. And it doesn't say that in the Bible. And God says that for a reason. |
| 1:15.6 | And I think one of the main reasons is kids are going to leave someday. You know, they're going to be |
| 1:19.3 | grow up, they're going to be gone. And so if you have lost yourself, if your whole identity as being a mom or dad and not a husband or a wife. You've got to be the husband, |
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