Feeling Alone in My Marriage | Ep. 480
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Loneliness in marriage is a uniquely difficult pain, but that's where you are today, you're not alone. At Awesome Marriage, people often tell us they feel alone in their marriage. Yet there is hope: We also see marriages restored and transformed time and again! If you're in a lonely, disconnected marriage today, we pray you will take heart and not give up. Tune in for Dr. Kim and Christina's advice on what to do if you feel alone in your marriage.
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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 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. |
| 0:27.8 | Today we are looking at feeling alone in your marriage. So many people feel alone in their |
| 0:33.1 | marriage. Unfortunately, it's one of the messages we get the most here at awesome marriage. |
| 0:54.7 | People reaching out to us because they are stuck here. It always breaks our hearts. Our hearts and our prayers go out to you if you are feeling that today. Today we want to give you some hope and some good next steps. Hey, if you are new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday. And on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special guest interview. Go ahead and hit subscribe in whatever app you listen so that you can tune in each |
| 0:59.0 | and every week. So, Dr. Kim, what are some of the reasons a person might feel alone in their |
| 1:04.0 | marriage? I think when there's not any connection, you feel alone, you got married to do life |
| 1:08.0 | with someone, and so if that connection, especially if you had it early in your marriage and it's just kind of gone, the same thing would be with communication, |
| 1:15.0 | which is one of the forms of connection. |
| 1:17.7 | You know, you used to talk well and all those kind of stuff and you just don't communicate |
| 1:20.8 | anymore. |
| 1:21.4 | And communication is such an important thing. |
| 1:24.2 | Talking and listening to each other, connects us, helps us know more about each other, |
| 1:28.2 | helps us grow our love for each other, that you don't have fun together anymore. |
| 1:31.9 | You know, I've never talked to a couple that didn't tell me they had fun before marriage |
| 1:35.5 | because I don't think they would have married if they didn't. |
| 1:37.9 | But they get into marriage and they don't. |
| 1:39.8 | And so, or now your spouse is having fun, but they're doing it with their friends or with someone |
| 1:44.9 | else or by themselves. |
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