How Make to Love a Verb In Your Marriage | Ep. 543
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It is Valentine's Day! And today we're talking about how to put love in action in your marriage. It's safe to assume you love your spouse - even if they drive you crazy sometimes! But how well do you put your love into action in a way that speaks to them? Showing love to your spouse is not just a once a year thing, so today we're talking about practical ways to do this in your everyday life. We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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What does your spouse want you to do with their love language?
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What if the spouse doesn't respond well?
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Is there a name for the "love language" of seeing your spouse engage with the kids?
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Plus an anonymous listener question about why a spouse never says "I love you"
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
RESOURCES
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Our Love Cans can help you learn to put love in action in your marriage! Find out what fills your spouse's love tank so that you can intentionally make deposits of that lovin' feeling!
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5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
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Make this Valentine's weekend fun and engaging with a lasting impact with the Online Marriage Retreat!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:29.7 | Today on the awesome marriage podcast, we are talking about how to put love in action in your marriage. |
| 0:36.1 | It's safe to assume you love your spouse, even if they |
| 0:38.5 | drive you crazy sometimes, but how well do you put your love into action in a way that speaks to |
| 0:44.0 | them? Today we'll give some practical ways to do this in your everyday life. So Dr. Kim, it's Valentine's |
| 0:51.0 | day, and this is the time that a lot of us think about demonstrating love. |
| 0:56.8 | But why do we need to make love a verb in our marriage? |
| 0:59.9 | Why is it enough to say, I love you? |
| 1:01.8 | I think that I do think love is an action word. |
| 1:05.0 | And so, like, if I tell Nancy that I love her, but my actions tell a different story, you know, what is she going to believe? |
| 1:14.9 | She's going to believe my actions. If I'm sitting there telling her love her, but then I'm just being grumpy or I'm being unkind or I'm not paying attention to her, I'm not listening to her. |
| 1:21.5 | She's going to believe what she sees and what she, because that's going to give the emotion to her and so if i tell her i love her i need to |
| 1:29.8 | back that up with the way i treat her the way i talk to her what i do for all those kind of things that and i'm |
| 1:35.6 | never going to be perfect but as best i can to not only tell her i love her but to show her i love her |
| 1:41.2 | yeah i think that's a really good point because our words, you know, are kind of expressed |
| 1:46.2 | like our best intent, but our actions, you can't really fake those. |
| 1:50.9 | No. |
| 1:51.9 | No, and I think, you know, just in basic communication, we know that our actual words really |
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