How To Love The Adult Child Who Breaks Your Heart with Dr. David Clarke
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
So many parents know the pain of a broken relationship with their adult child. This isn't how you thought it would go, and you're not sure how to love your child when they continue to break your heart. Today Dr. David E Clarke returns to the podcast to give some biblical steps that parents can take, individually or as a couple, with their prodigal child.
Episode highlights include:
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10 scenarios that can cause relational disconnect with your adult child
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Steps to repairing your relationship when you've fallen short
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Resolving parental guilt - and what happens if you fail to do so
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Forgiving the adult child that has broken your heart
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What role do other family members play?
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
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| 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. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Well, welcome today's awesome marriage podcast. I'm so |
| 0:32.3 | excited to welcome back Dr. David Clark. He is a good friend. He is, I think, the third or fourth time on the podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | He's a regular, and I couldn't have anybody I'd regular have. We're going to talk about this new book, |
| 0:44.4 | which is amazing. It's called Adult Children Who Break Your Heart. Welcome, David. |
| 0:50.0 | Thanks, Kim. Great. My pleasure to be here. Oh, it's so good to see you again and to see the work you're doing and your materials are helping so many people. |
| 0:57.7 | I use them all the time with people now because you're honest, you're open, you're to the point, and you don't dance around about things. |
| 1:06.7 | And I think when we're talking about narcissism and some of the things that happen in marriage, you can't. |
| 1:11.3 | You just can't. |
| 1:12.5 | No, there's no dancing around. |
| 1:14.4 | No frills. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm a no frills guy. |
| 1:16.4 | The no frills guy. |
| 1:17.6 | Well, we're going to talk about prodigals today. |
| 1:19.2 | So let's start out with kind of what are some common types of prodigal situations that you see? |
| 1:25.6 | Here's the list. |
| 1:26.4 | I cover 10 in the book, but the first one is my child has rejected me. |
| 1:30.8 | Cut me off. |
| 1:31.5 | And very often, I don't even know why. |
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