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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith.

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This month at Awesome Marriage, we've been talking about decision making in marriage.

So each week on the podcast, we've been talking about different topics related to decision

making.

We think this is such an important topic this month because learning to handle decision

making together as a team in marriage is just a critical part of having a good and awesome

marriage.

Today we're going to be focusing on talking about how to focus on the common goal when

making decisions. So Dr. Kim, is there always a common goal? What should that common goal be when

it comes to the decision making in marriage? So since we're on an awesome marriage podcast,

I guess I should say it should be an awesome marriage. I think that would be good.

You know, I was thinking with Nancy and I, when we first got married, I think we wanted to have a good marriage.

I'm sure we knew what that was.

I mean, we kind of just thought, I think that means you just flipped it and you're happy or whatever thing. But I think when we, I've told the story before, when I got to about year six or seven,

when we really were on the brink of divorce

or talked about divorce,

it was really interesting.

And I hadn't thought this in a long time,

but Nancy gave me,

as we were kind of coming out of that and figuring out,

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