How To Disagree Without Defensiveness With Mike Donehey | Ep. 549
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 ā¢ 813 Ratings
šļø 28 March 2023
ā±ļø 48 minutes
šļø Recording | iTunes | RSS
š§¾ļø Download transcript
Summary
Do you ever get a little defensive when your spouse disagrees with you? Marriage disagreements get real because we can't just ignore what we don't agree on like we can with an acquaintance. Today Mike Donehey joins Dr. Kim on the podcast and shares gospel-centered wisdom that shows us a better way to disagree.
Episode highlights include:Ā
-
How Christians should handle defensivenessĀ
-
A great way to diffuse an argument as soon as it beginsĀ
-
What can happen when we take the time to really hear the other person's argumentĀ
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.Ā
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him outĀ here!
Ā
RESOURCES
-
Read Mike's book, Grace in the Gray: A More Loving Way to Disagree
-
Find Mike at MikeDonehey.com
-
Listen to Mike's podcast, Chasing the BeautyĀ
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome today's Austin Marriage Podcast. Today on the podcast, I'm excited to welcome |
| 0:32.5 | singer, songwriter, and bestselling author, Mike Donahey. Mike was the former lead singer of 10th Avenue North. |
| 0:39.3 | He is host to the podcast, Chasing the Beauty, a Thisterman Dad, to Four Girls. And his new book |
| 0:44.8 | is Gray, A Better Way to Disagree. Let's go to the studio now. |
| 0:50.0 | Mike, thank you so much for joining us today. It's good to have you on Lost of Marriage Podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:00.5 | It's so cool. The new book is Grace in the Grey, A Better Way to Disagree. |
| 1:04.1 | So have you always been able to disagree well? |
| 1:14.5 | Well, no, the first sentence of my book is, my wife is really good at disagreeing with me. I had to learn how to be cool with it, |
| 1:20.2 | you know. Yeah, absolutely. I think, isn't it funny, the things that we learn from our wives, |
| 1:24.3 | that, you know, when we think we've got everything and then that we realize that God put them in our lives for a lot of reasons, but one of them, I think, is to |
| 1:28.0 | help us realize that there's some things we need to grow in. |
| 1:31.3 | There's a whole host. I'm keeping a list of things that I didn't realize my wife was going |
| 1:38.1 | to teach me when I married her. I love it. That may be a book later on. Yeah. You know, |
| 1:46.1 | we can collaborate on that. |
| 1:50.8 | So you talk about the pandemic showing you that we often view each other not only selfish, but is outright threats to our own well-being. |
| 1:54.9 | What do you mean by that? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Kim Kimberling, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Kim Kimberling and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright Ā© Tapesearch 2026.