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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 at Awesome Marriage, we're talking about distractions and marriage.

So each week on the podcast, we've been sharing one common distraction and how to keep it for

messing up your marriage.

Today's distraction is a big one, probably like the biggest one, I think, when it comes

to a marriage, it's work.

So why is work such a distraction for so many

couples? Dr. Kim, what do you think? Work takes time, and it takes a lot of energy. And, you know,

if you're really into your work or you want to do a good job, it takes focus and it takes effort.

And I think what happens, it's easy to get where that comes into your life. And then all of a

sudden you don't have anything left for your spouse, you know, anything left for your kids. And

and it's like you did people get, it really would call it workaholic. And that really is kind of what

happens because that becomes so addictive that you, it is hard for you to take time to spend with your wife, to spend with your kids, to be focused on them.

You may be, you know, and I've had guys say, well, I'm not, I workaholic.

I'm at, I'm at home every night at 6 o'clock.

And then the wife will say, yeah, you're on your phone during dinner.

You have your laptop in your life the whole time that we're doing other stuff in the evening with the family and kids, you know, if we're playing a game, you're not playing.

You'll sit at the table with us, but you're doing something else.

And so I think we've got to realize, you know, just because you're not sitting at your desk

in your office doesn't mean you're not working.

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