Finding Your Safe Space Friends | Ep. 438
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk about how to find your safe space friends where you can really share what's going on in your marriage - the good, the bad, and the ugly. They discuss how to cultivate those kinds of friendships and why they are so important.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today we were talking about how to find your safe space friends where you can really share what's |
| 0:15.7 | going on in your marriage, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We're going to discuss how to |
| 0:20.3 | cultivate those kinds of friendships and why they are so |
| 0:23.6 | important. |
| 0:24.5 | We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage |
| 0:34.6 | and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. I am your |
| 0:38.6 | co-host Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. Dr. Kim is a marriage |
| 0:44.0 | counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you strengthen your |
| 0:49.2 | most intimate relationship. |
| 1:00.8 | So Dr. Kim, what are safe space friends? |
| 1:07.9 | For me, I think it's somebody that I can trust completely, and it's a two-way relationship. |
| 1:12.1 | It's not one-sided, that we both trust each other, someone that we both shoot straight with each other so that you know it really is a safe place i can say anything here |
| 1:16.9 | they can say anything here we're still going to be friends and that is holds confidentiality as something |
| 1:22.6 | that's sacred so to me those are the things the trust the two-way, that you're going to be totally honest with each other and the confidentiality. |
| 1:30.7 | You don't have to worry about, okay, I buried my soul with a safe place friend, and now it's on Facebook or Instagram. |
| 1:36.9 | You know, you know they're going to hold it sacred. |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah, absolutely, definitely. |
| 1:41.7 | I think you make up a really great point about that it goes both ways, |
| 1:45.3 | because it can be really hard to, like, bear your soul and like, you know, confess your sin and then |
| 1:50.1 | talk about the hard stuff if the friend isn't willing to give anything in return, you know, |
| 1:54.8 | where it's just like if you feel like they're just some like perfect mentor and they never |
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