How To Tell When Your Marriage Issues Are Solved | Ep. 460
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast we're focusing on markers of a solved conflict: how to tell when your marriage issue is solved. A lot of times we may give up on the problem solving too soon and stop short of real resolution, but unless we resolve the issue, it will keep coming up over and over again. So how do we break that cycle? Tune in today to find out.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:26.6 | Last week, we talked about how to know and define what the real problem is in your marriage |
| 0:35.6 | conflict. This week, we're going to be focusing in on |
| 0:38.2 | markers of a solved conflict, how to tell when your marriage issue is solved. If an issue |
| 0:43.8 | isn't solved yet, we need to keep working on the resolution. I think a lot of times we give up |
| 0:49.0 | on the problem a little bit too soon and we stop short of the real resolution. So if you're new to the show, |
| 0:55.5 | we drop an episode every Tuesday. And on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special guest |
| 1:00.1 | interview. Be sure to go ahead and hit subscribe in whatever podcast app that you listen to so that |
| 1:04.5 | you can tune in every week. Now, on to the topic, Dr. Kim. Do you find that couples often stop short of a real resolution? |
| 1:13.0 | I think so. I think a lot of times if the arguing and fighting stops and, you know, there's just kind of a piece that can come with that. |
| 1:19.2 | They think they kind of think, well, we've done what we need to do, because it just got peaceful. |
| 1:23.6 | And so they don't go farther with it. But if there's not a real resolution, the fight cycle is going to continue. |
| 1:29.3 | And I think that's what a lot of couples that I see in counseling. |
| 1:31.3 | I think that's what Nancy and I did a lot of times. |
| 1:33.3 | We would fight and fight and fight and then we'd just quit fighting, but we didn't resolve anything. |
| 1:38.3 | It just was peaceful for a few days, but then that same thing or something similar would come up again. And I think that's where you |
| 1:44.8 | get in those cycles if things aren't resolved. Yeah, yeah, it's so true. I'll never forget, |
| 1:50.1 | this was like several years ago, and one of my mentors who I really like up to, I had been sharing |
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