Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

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 of Awesome Marriage, we're talking about habits of healthy couples. Each week on the podcast, we're going to be sharing one

habit of a healthy couple and kind of breaking it down for you. So today's habit is showing

appreciation. Dr. Kim, why is showing appreciation such an important trait in a healthy couple?

Why is it so necessary

to a marriage? You know, when we talk so much about God for a spouse second, a lot of times people

ask me, how do I put my spouse second? Yeah, I don't want to try some things in front of my spouse,

but I think showing appreciation is a really way to affirm our spouse and let them know that we

value them,

you know, just thanking them or being grateful for them or something they've done. I think it shows

respect for a spouse. So I think in the way I look at it, when we show appreciation, it just kind

elevates our spouse. It puts them on a level that I think God would have us put them. And I think

it makes them fairly good about themselves. And then I think when we do that that I think God would have us put them, and I think it makes them

feel really good about themselves.

And then I think when we do that, I think the tendency is to reciprocate, to do the same thing

for us.

And so I think it's just a healthy thing to look at really building in your marriage.

If it's there, just keep doing it.

If it isn't, look for some ways to begin to do that.

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