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 Nill Smith.

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This month, The Awesome Marriage, we're talking all about quality time and marriage and different ways to find quality time and to do this well in a

marriage. So today we're going to be specifically talking about how to have a great date. So Dr. Kim,

as we kick things off, what kind of defines a date? How would, what would you say a date is? Yeah, I think it's a great question,

because I think some of us, we'd have this image, maybe it come from movies or TV shows or, you know,

it's got to be this dinner or dinner movie or stuff like that, which all be dates. But I think

for me, for Nancy and I, anytime that we can be intentional about being together and and have the focus on each other on our marriage, then I think it becomes a date.

And that may be us hanging around the house and saying, hey, let's go to Starbucks and get something.

And so we'll drive it and we'll gauge on the way there and then we'll sit down and have something together.

And it's kind of a mini

date. But for us, it's any time that we can get that time together, focus on each other,

be intentional about each other. And so I think that can happen 24 hours in the day. It can

happen any time. You know, we could wake up in the middle of night and say, hey, you want to hang out, you know, or whatever you know, it can happen any time.

Yeah, certainly. That's good. So, you know, we talk a lot about dates and date nights here at

Awesome Marriage. Why do we do this? Why do we talk about someone to Dr. Cam? Why are dates so

important to marriage? Why are we going to not continue, you know, why are we going to not discontinue talking about this? Yeah, because I think we've,

it's always been, I'm sure, forever from Adam and Eve on that you have to have intentional time together.

And so how you do that and having a date. And so it's so important that we do that. And I think

in our culture today, I mean, I'll talk to couples and we'll talk about how important it is like in a counseling session. And they'll say, yeah, we'll have a date. We'll be back in for two weeks.

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