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. So today on the podcast, we welcome back, Rachel and Felipe Jimenez. We're so

excited about our couple being back. Dear, dear friends of mine, they're an international couple

that are newlyweds. They just got buried seven months ago.

So they're kind of entering into marriage. So that's what we're going to be focusing on today.

Just what that has looked like for them. So the last podcast, we talked more specifically about

the challenges that came with long distance and cross-cultural dating. But what has that been like

entering into marriage? Like has there been any challenges

that have kind of been amplified due to now being together, living day-to-day life together?

And too, Rachel, for you, like living in a different country. So a lot of the challenges

haven't been too extreme. Obviously, it's just going from first off being in two different countries and then not only

living in the same country, but living together.

I mean, it's like a 360 change from talking to someone on a computer and then physically

living with them after getting married.

So definitely you start learning little things like the habits and stuff. Like,

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