How to Be Known | Ep. 270
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We all want to be known and loved. But there are some very real obstacles to being truly known. In order to reach true intimacy in marriage, we have to work though these obstacles and do the hard work of transparency and acceptance.
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk specifically about how to be known.
Tune in to learn more about how to be a student of your spouse!
RESOURCES
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
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"As long as we got walls up it is obstacle that is going to be in the way, and is going to limit what we can have in a relationship." -Dr. Kim Kimberling
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Transcript
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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. This month of awesome marriage, we're talking all about a concept that Dr. |
| 0:28.4 | Kim shares a lot about, the concept of being a student of your spouse. So today we're going to be |
| 0:32.9 | talking specifically about how to be known. Dr. Kim, what are some of the obstacles to being known? |
| 0:39.5 | Probably us. You know, we get in the wrong way. But I think just things we talk about all the |
| 0:45.3 | time affect that. It affects time to go to know someone. You have to spend time with them. |
| 0:50.2 | Your relationship with God grows. We all know that the more time we spend with him and |
| 0:54.5 | then we know how important that is to God. Important does. So same things from marriage. So we |
| 0:58.3 | but we let life get in the way. We like busyness get in the way for some reason the most |
| 1:02.2 | important relationship in this life next to God. We put down the list and we put other things |
| 1:06.8 | in front of it. You know, and some of them are important. I'm not saying there, you know, you don't do anything that sit around and start your spouse |
| 1:12.8 | and talk, but if you don't spend some time doing that, you're not going to be known. |
| 1:17.4 | So I think it's all those obstacles. |
| 1:18.8 | And when I sit as, I mean, I think for me, my own selfishness gets in there. |
| 1:22.3 | It's like, okay, I can spend time with Nancy. |
| 1:24.0 | She's got an hour or so. We could sit on and talk, but I don't want to do this, you know, and so I've got to make a choice there. Now, sometimes that doesn't mean that I don't |
| 1:31.0 | ever do something I want to do. But, you know, if we haven't had enough time together this week, |
| 1:34.9 | and I've been really busy and she's been busy, and then the opportunity comes, say, |
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