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.

I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most

intimate relationship. Today, I am super excited. We are continuing our mini series on talking about

14 keys to lasting love. Dr. Kim's new book that comes out in just five days, it comes out on

January 8th, and we are so excited about it. So in this book,

he just shares 14 really vital keys, essential things that's going to make your marriage

lasts a long call. So, you know, the marriage you've always wanted, this is what we're going to

help you obtain. So each day on the podcast this week, we're talking about a different chapter

in the book and a different key to lasting love.

So today we're going to be talking about friends or foe conflict behavior when it comes to marriage.

So Dr. Kim, what are some important topics and sensitive issues you've seen in marriages that if left unresolved or left untalked about can lead to conflict?

Yeah, I think in general, anything that's important to one of you that's not resolved

is going to continue to cause problems.

I think couples fight, so it can be over almost any subject if it pulls you apart like that.

Some of the common subjects I see in counseling, I mean, I think sex is a big thing that

couples argue about.

They don't resolve.

They get frustrated.

The husband gets frustrated or whatever.

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