Leaving and Cleaving Defined | Ep. 198
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What exactly does it mean to leave and cleave in a marriage? Why does God call us to do this? This month at Awesome Marriage we are talking all about family issues. Today on the podcast Dr. Kim and Christina discuss what it means to leave and cleave and the importance of it in order to have a healthy, thriving marriage that God intended.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:11.9 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:23.1 | This month, the Awesome Marriage, we're talking about family issues when it comes to marriage. A lot of marital issues stem from family issues |
| 0:28.7 | or the mixing of families and family origins. We get a lot of requests daily about advice on |
| 0:34.8 | how to handle these marital conflicts that involve family members. So we really |
| 0:39.2 | wanted to take some time to address these big family issues this month here at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:43.9 | So today we're going to be talking specifically about leaving and cleaving and what that means. |
| 0:49.2 | So Dr. Kim, let's just dive right in. Where did this idea of leaving and cleaving come from? Seems to be God's |
| 0:56.2 | idea since he mentions it in the Bible. He talks about men to leave his basic family of origin and |
| 1:02.0 | be united to his wife. And so it's kind of interesting. You know, we think about, yeah, you get married |
| 1:06.3 | and you leave and you go with your spouse and everything, but God created marriage. It was important, but he also stressed the fact of leaving and cleaving. |
| 1:13.8 | So he had to know that it might be an issue for us, for him to even address it and to say, |
| 1:18.5 | this is the way you're supposed to do it. |
| 1:19.9 | So it really was his idea, and there's obviously with anything of God's wisdom, and it's amazing. |
| 1:25.3 | And when we do it well, things are really good. And if we don't do it |
| 1:28.9 | well, we can cause all our problems in a marriage. Yeah, certainly. And it does. It stems, |
| 1:33.9 | you're so right, just straight from God's words. So the main verse that people say when you say the |
| 1:38.6 | actual terminology, leave and cleave, it comes from Genesis 2.24 and the King James version actually |
| 1:43.9 | says leave and cleave. So it says, |
| 1:45.2 | therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall |
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