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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Learn to Turn Conflict Into Connection with Dana Che Williams | Ep. 604

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Christianity, Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 ā€¢ 813 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 22 March 2024

ā±ļø 58 minutes

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Summary

Learn how conflict can create a deeper connection between you and your spouse. Today's special guest, marriage coach Dana Che is very open about the struggles her marriage faced. In today's episode she shares her marriage story, what got them through, and how you can use the conflict you face in marriage to draw you toward deeper connection.Ā 

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We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.Ā 

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Episode highlights include:Ā Ā 

  • What we can learn from our conflict triggers

  • How to deal with different conflict styles in marriageĀ 

  • Steps to break generational cycles in your marriageĀ 

  • The power of speaking life to our spouse and our marriageĀ 

  • How being emotionally unavailable tends to show up in husbands and in wives & what to do about itĀ Ā 

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*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!Ā 



QUOTES

  • "As a wife, I knew I couldn't change my husband ā€¦ but that didn'' keep me from trying." Dana CheĀ 

  • "When you actually engage in conflict, you can start to learn more about your spouse, what's important to them." -Dana CheĀ 

  • Ā "You've got to feed the right things if you want to change the wrong things." - Dana CheĀ 

  • "Just like you learned that bad behavior, you can unlearn it and learn something new." Dana CheĀ 

  • "True repentance is visible." Dana CheĀ 

  • "What we believe, we will begin to speak. What we speak, we will begin to behave." Dana Che



QUESTIONS FOR YOU

  • What does your most recent marriage conflict reveal about what's most valuable to you?Ā Ā 

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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Ā 

  • Find more from Dana at DanaChe.com, where you can take her "Connection Check" quizĀ 

  • Listen to the "Real Relationship Talk" podcastĀ 

  • Joining Marriage Changers now means you score a huge haul of marriage-building goods when our annual *7 Most-Popular Resource Bundle* goes live on April 2nd!Ā 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome today's Office of Marriage Podcast. I'm so glad you guys have joined this today. My special guest is Dana Che. She has certified marriage and relationship coach, a speaker, and the host of the Real Relationships Talk Podcast. She and Sean have been married for 24 years together. They have four children. We're going to talk about some tough marriage topics today. We're going to hear her story about how they overcame some really

0:24.9

tough times in their marriage. We're going to talk about connection and conflict. We're going to

0:29.6

talk unhealthy conflict patterns. What if your spouse is a mostly unavailable? A lot of really good

0:35.0

things. I think you're going to love this interview.

0:42.2

Dana shares so many good things that I think will make a difference for your marriage. So let's go the studio right now. Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations

0:49.5

and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. I am your podcast producer and co-host,

0:56.3

Lindsay Few. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor

1:02.7

and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you strengthen your most

1:08.5

intimate relationship.

1:13.7

Dana, welcome to the Lost of Marriage Podcast.

1:16.6

Thank you for saying yes and meeting today.

1:21.5

It's just been, we had got a chance to talk before it went live, and it's great to get to know you.

1:22.5

It's such a pleasure for me to be here with you today, Dr. Kim.

1:25.2

Thanks so much for having me.

1:26.3

It's my pleasure very much. So let's just kind of jump into marriage and you have shared a lot about what your

1:33.2

marriage has overcome. So share some of the marriage story with us so people can kind of

1:38.8

see where you've been. Yeah. Well, my husband and I have known each other almost all our lives. I met him when I was probably four or five years old. We were at the same church. And he's a couple of years older than me. He's actually the same age as my sister. So that was just kind of like my sister's friend. I wasn't interested in him growing up at all until we got to high school. We went to a small Christian school in our area, and everyone was like,

2:03.0

you guys need to be together. So we started dating in high school. And I was a believer as he was as well.

2:10.6

And first year in college, we found out that I was pregnant. And that was such a shock to everyone, including me, because it wasn't,

2:20.8

you know, like I was in a backslidden state. I wasn't, you know, promiscuous or anything like that.

2:25.6

But I had this stronghold in my life that I didn't fully surrender to the Lord. And so we were like,

2:32.9

wow, this is obviously a big change in plans. What are we going to do? We knew that we were going to get married eventually, but we were like, okay, after college for sure, you know. And with the baby, that really just kind of accelerated our timeline. So we got married literally 30 days after I turned 18. I remember going down to the

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