Is The First Year Of Marriage The Hardest? | Ep. 356
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
So many people will warn you to "stick out" that first year of marriage because it's going to be rough. But is that true? Is the first year of marriage the hardest?
In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk about the first year of marriage and what they learned in their first year of their own marriages.
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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 have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. So many people will warn you to stick it out that first year of marriage |
| 0:29.8 | because it's going to be rough. But is that true? Is the first year of marriage really the hardest? |
| 0:34.5 | Today, Dr. Kim and I are going to be discussing just that. Dr. Kim, |
| 0:37.7 | why do you think so many people warn us about the first year of marriage? I think statistics back |
| 0:43.6 | it up. There are a lot of first year divorces. There are studies that say that most marriages that |
| 0:48.5 | fail will do so within the first two years. And that first two know, that first two years, it's a big adjustment. |
| 0:54.7 | You find out differences, find out things about your person you're living with, you're married |
| 0:58.7 | too, that you didn't know. Most couples go into the marriage with no idea how to resolve conflict |
| 1:04.3 | or how to really stay connected. I think we go in, and certainly Nancy and I did, we kind of go |
| 1:08.9 | with rose colored glasses and think we'll figure it out and not and not it's intentional about okay what do we need to do this first year |
| 1:16.1 | marriage what do we need to do to survive it and grow through it and so i think i think people warn |
| 1:22.3 | that because we see statistics now that back up the fact that a lot of people give up that first year of marriage |
| 1:29.5 | or first or second year marriage. Yeah, definitely. I agree. I know a lot of people warned a lot of I |
| 1:34.4 | about the first year of marriage, especially because we decided to get married so young and a little |
| 1:37.4 | untraditionally in the sense that we have married in college with our parents of people and all that |
| 1:42.3 | good stuff. But a lot of people warned us about it. |
| 1:44.2 | But I think we also had wise counsel that said, you know, marriage is good. |
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