How to Set Marriage Boundaries | Ep. 548
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we get into the details of how to carry out healthy boundary setting. We continue the series on healthy boundaries by talking about logistics of how to set and carry out the boundaries our marriages need.
We'll talk about how to do this conversation well, and what NOT to do when you talk about them. Tune in to hear how to set these well to help you and your marriages to be their healthiest.
What do you want to hear more about before we close this series? Let me know!
Episode highlights include:
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Dr. Kim gives several examples of how to make boundaries enforceable
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Practical dos and don'ts of a boundaries conversation
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What to do if your spouse doesn't agree to your boundaries or respect them
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Ways for in-laws to deal with boundaries involving their married kids
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
RESOURCES
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A helpful companion episode: What is Team Language? | Ep. 501
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Our Boundaries Guide walks through the topics we've covered through this series and helps you decide where and how to start applying this content to your marriage.
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We talk to a lot of couples who don't know what makes them a great team, so we created Team You & Me: A Guide to Approaching Your Marriage as a Team, to help you be more intentional to tap into all God has for you in the gift of your marriage.
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Our Conflict Solving Survey & Workbook provides more help to work on healthy and effective conflict resolution together.
- Learn all about how to set healthy boundaries for your marriage with our Building Better Boundaries For Your Marriage online course. Dr. Kim covers why and how and gives practical tips and examples to help you put them in place.
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. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:29.1 | Today on the awesome marriage podcast, we are continuing our series on healthy boundaries |
| 0:34.0 | by talking about the logistics of how to set and carry out the boundaries |
| 0:38.2 | our marriages need for ourselves and our marriages to be their healthiest. So in the past couple |
| 0:43.2 | episodes, we've given a lot of places where a boundary might need to be set. And today we're going |
| 0:48.4 | to go deeper on how to make that happen. So Dr. Kim, to start off, how do we know if we need a boundary in a certain area? |
| 0:57.3 | Well, I think there's certain things that kind of, that I see from counting couples that just |
| 1:01.6 | kind of arise consistently. |
| 1:04.2 | Certainly conflict, if not hadn't conflict well, we've talked about that. |
| 1:09.5 | Trust definitely is one. If there's a trust issue, |
| 1:12.3 | maybe someone had an emotional affair, physical fare, pornography, whatever, boundaries to rebuild |
| 1:18.1 | that trust. Security, I don't feel safe in the relationship. I don't feel safe financially. |
| 1:23.1 | What do we need to do to put some boundaries to do that? So things like that, I think, are some of the things that are some red flags that pop up |
| 1:30.8 | that a lot of times we don't know what to do with. |
| 1:34.3 | And yet by sitting down and having a good conversation, both getting on the same page |
| 1:38.5 | and something and saying, okay, well, yeah, let's do this. |
| 1:42.1 | Let's set a boundary here with our conflict. |
| 1:44.5 | We're not going to yell. |
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