How To Keep This Distraction From Messing Up Your Marriage: Technology | Ep. 126
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This month on the podcast we are talking about distractions in marriage. Today on the podcast Dr. Kim, Nils, and Christina talk about the distraction of technology and how to make sure technology doesn’t cause trouble for your marriage. In our culture today screens and technology are everywhere and although that provides for many blessings, it can also be a very real and very addictive distraction. In this podcast they share real life examples and give ideas on healthy boundaries that can help protect your marriage from this distraction.
Tune in to learn more about how to make sure this distraction doesn’t take away from your marriage!
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:22.9 | This month at Awesome Marriage, we've been talking about distractions and marriage. Each week on the podcast, we've been sharing one common |
| 0:27.0 | distraction and how to keep it from messing up your marriage. Today's distraction is technology. So it's a |
| 0:32.8 | big one, definitely in our culture today. What do you guys think are the different technology |
| 0:37.1 | distractions that might distract us from our marriage? |
| 0:39.8 | Nils, what are your thoughts? |
| 0:41.1 | You know, I think there's two that immediately come to mind. |
| 0:44.7 | This is obviously a set up for drones. |
| 0:47.3 | We'll get a podcast. |
| 0:49.5 | But I think the two that come to mind are TV and cell phones, you know, |
| 0:52.9 | and two technologies that are very |
| 0:54.9 | much a part of our lives and marriages. And it's not a new conversation in marriage of TV. And should we |
| 1:01.5 | have a TV in the bedroom? Should we not? I'm really curious to hear Dr. Kim's opinion on that. |
| 1:05.0 | But now cell phones are are such a core to how we are connected in the world. |
| 1:16.6 | And, you know, I know my cell phone is, I use the excuse of it's my alarm clock, |
| 1:19.3 | but it's also my television to bed, even though we don't have, |
| 1:21.6 | we don't have a television in our room, but I do on my cell phone. |
| 1:28.3 | And that technology that is, in many ways, taking away the intimacy, not just sexual intimacy, |
| 1:35.4 | but relational, emotional intimacy in our marriage sometimes because the distraction that comes with it. |
| 1:35.9 | So obviously, technologies can always be enhancing to every aspect of our lives, including |
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