How to Set Boundaries in One-Sided Marriage | Ep. 505
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Thank goodness for Dr. Kim's wisdom and counseling experience to help us unpack this issue!
It's not something many of us have seen done well, or been taught to do, but setting appropriate boundaries can help you and your marriage grow healthier. Tune in to find out how and why this works.
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Transcript
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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. So we've been talking about what to do if you feel |
| 0:31.9 | like you are in a one-sided marriage. If you and your spouse are not on the same page and you |
| 0:37.2 | want to make some |
| 0:37.7 | changes, what are appropriate boundaries that you can set to help you grow and be at your best? |
| 0:42.7 | And how can you implement them? Well, Dr. K, I'm glad that you're here to help us sort through |
| 0:47.1 | this today because setting boundaries is something that I did not grow up seeing modeled, |
| 0:52.1 | and I know a lot of us did not. So first question about boundaries. |
| 0:56.9 | Is it selfish to set boundaries? |
| 0:58.9 | Are they even a biblical concept? |
| 1:02.2 | No. |
| 1:02.9 | I mean, yes, and I did go back. |
| 1:04.7 | I think that very few of us grew up learning about boundaries, what that meant. |
| 1:09.6 | It was, you know, as a kid, you weren't supposed |
| 1:11.2 | to say anything. You were supposed to be, you know, the things that you had these rules that |
| 1:15.6 | you just kind of followed, but didn't know that sometimes those got pushed a little bit, |
| 1:19.7 | and it really wasn't fair. So the boundary is just a dividing line. It's just, it's, you know, |
| 1:25.4 | in geography, it's a boundary that for one property |
| 1:29.5 | ends, the other begins. So in an interpersonal relationships, it's a marriage, it's a boundary |
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