Habits of Healthy Couples // Habit 4- Avoid the Temptation to Try to Change Each Other // | Ep. 104

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast Dr. Kim, Nils, and Christina share about the 4th habit of a healthy couple: avoiding the temptation to try to change each other. They share why trying to change each other isn’t a good plan and what to do instead when you have issues in your marriage. They share real life stories and practical advice.

Tune in to learn more about how to avoid this temptation and how to keep your marriage healthy!

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0:00.8	Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage
0:05.9	and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.
0:09.7	I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.
0:11.9	On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.
0:15.6	To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage.
0:22.7	So this month at Awesome Marriage, we've been talking about habits of healthy couples. So each week on the podcast, we've been sharing
0:26.8	one habit of a healthy couple and breaking it down. So today, in continuation of our series,
0:31.6	we're going to be talking about the temptation to change each other and avoiding it. So the habit is
0:37.1	avoiding the temptation to change each other. Dr. Ham So the habit is avoiding the temptation to change
0:39.0	each other. Dr. Hamma, why do you think we're so tempted to do this? Why are we so tempted to change
0:44.0	our spouse? We all come into marriage with expectations. I think I was trying to think through,
0:48.9	I think probably most of the situations I say were a spouse was trying to change the spouses because
0:52.6	of expectations. And a lot of them already in spoken anyway. It's like this expectation, this is the way my dad
0:57.5	did it or my mom did it or this is the way somebody I watched did it or I don't like this.
1:03.1	And so my expectation is that you'll change and want to do what I want you to do. And so I think
1:07.9	instead of accepting our spouses, they are, we have a tendency to say,
1:11.9	well, I can just hone them a little bit. And I think that in reality, God does that over
1:17.1	the time in a marriage. But I think sometimes we get very impatient. And so we want to change.
1:21.3	And I've had couples that would say, you know, Cass, I thought that he or she accepted me great.
1:26.1	And we got married and we got back from the honeymoon. It's like, oh, I thought that he or she accepted me great and we got married and we got back from the honeymoon.
1:28.2	It's like, oh, my gosh, she's got this.
1:30.1	He or she has this checklist of what they want me to do and not do.
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