Fighting Styles | Ep. 352
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In Dr. Kim's counseling practice he sees 4 main fighting styles amongst married couples. In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina discuss those 4 fighting styles and how to say "no" to fighting and say "yes" to healthy conflict resolution.
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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. In Dr. Kim's counseling practice, he sees four main fighting styles |
| 0:29.2 | amongst married couples. Today we're going to be talking about each of those four styles and how |
| 0:33.3 | to say no to fighting the unhealthy way and how to say yes to healthy conflict resolution. |
| 0:38.8 | So Dr. Kim, what are the four fighting styles that you kind of define and see? |
| 0:43.1 | And can you briefly explain each of them? |
| 0:45.3 | Sure. |
| 0:45.7 | And this is kind of just over experience, just kind of categorized them. |
| 0:50.1 | The one I see a lot is escalation. |
| 0:52.2 | And that's where, you know, you go from zero to 100 in just a minute. |
| 0:56.6 | You know, the fight gets louder. |
| 0:59.5 | It gets where you don't hear each other. |
| 1:01.5 | Maybe you were started out talking a little civilly, and now you're just almost screaming at each other. |
| 1:06.3 | That one seems to happen a lot, and you never resolve anything that way. |
| 1:10.0 | Another one is invalidation and |
| 1:11.7 | that's where your feelings and your thoughts are rejected or they're ignored or they're judged |
| 1:15.6 | by the other person. And I hear this one a lot when someone will say, we'll tell their spouse |
| 1:21.2 | how they feel and the other spouse will say, you're not supposed to feel that way. That's not true. |
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