HELP, My Spouse Loves Their Smartphone More Than Me | Ep. 296
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Does your spouse pay more attention to their phone than they do you? Well you aren't alone!
The amount of comments, emails, and chats on our website that we get surrounding this issue is astounding. We are hearing every day that spouses are peeved with their spouse's smartphone habits. So many wives and husbands are feeling second rate to their spouse's phone.
Today Dr. Kim & Christina discuss this issue and give some grace-filled advice on how to handle this situation that we know so many of us are in.
Tune in to learn more!
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. Today we're talking about when it feels like your spouse loves their |
| 0:28.1 | smartphone more than you. The amount of comments, emails, and chats on our website that we get |
| 0:32.5 | surrounding this issue is truly astounding. And so we're just going to be talking about that today. |
| 0:37.4 | And, you know, |
| 0:38.2 | when you really feel like you're peeved with your spouse's cell phone habits, so many wives and |
| 0:42.9 | husbands are feeling second right to their spouse's phone. So today we're going to discuss the |
| 0:46.8 | issue and try to give some graceful device on how to handle the situation that we know so many |
| 0:51.6 | of us are in. So Dr. Cohn, why do you think this is such an issue today? |
| 0:55.6 | How many couples do you think actually struggle with this? |
| 0:59.1 | I know. |
| 0:59.7 | I think probably every couple since Nancy and I have, you know, that uses smart phones. |
| 1:06.1 | I mean, I know there's some people that, in fact, I go look at a couple this week, |
| 1:09.3 | and they're getting married and they're going to have a family family phone pan and he just, I don't want an iPhone. I don't want |
| 1:14.6 | anything. I don't have to learn all that stuff. But that, he's so far the exception. So most of it's |
| 1:19.2 | very much part of our lives. It's become a part of our lives. And we haven't figured out how to do that. And there is, you know, in my new book, I talk about that. There's an addictive property to it. There is a, for some people, and that's there. And there's so many things |
| 1:31.8 | that we can do on our phones. And, you know, for their social media, games, the text. I mean, |
| 1:37.2 | there's so many things we can do with it, entertainment, you know, all those kind of things. And it's just, it's our go-to. I mean, I was, I was just thinking this morning in Starbucks, and I walked in and everybody's sitting there waiting for |
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