Long Distance & Cross Cultural Relationships - Rachael & Felipe | Ep. 9
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Felipe and Rachael, an international couple, joins Dr. Kim Kimberling as they talk about the struggles and triumphs of long distance dating as well as cross cultural dating. They share real stories and practical advice from their personal experience. This great couple gets very real with hopes that their story will help couples walking through what they went through.
Tune in to learn how Felipe and Rachael made long distance and cross cultural work for them!
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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 how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:15.3 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:19.7 | Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven |
| 0:24.9 | Secrets to an Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:27.4 | Mill Smith is an innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the |
| 0:33.0 | innovation director at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:35.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome |
| 0:39.6 | Marriage. So today on the podcast, I'm super excited because we have some dear friends of |
| 0:45.9 | mine, Rachel and Felipe Jimenez. And today we're going to be kind of interviewing them and |
| 0:50.4 | talking about, they just have such a unique story, so we're excited to hear from them. not only are they a long distance couple and a cross-cultural couple but they are an interracial |
| 0:58.4 | couple as well um so we just kind of want to hear about their story and kind of the unique challenges |
| 1:03.4 | that come um with their relationship as well as the unique joys that come with it um so i'd love to |
| 1:08.5 | just start it off guys how did you guys first meet and then how did |
| 1:12.3 | you guys first decide to start dating even though you lived into totally different countries? |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah. So we met in 2010. My now wife, Rachel, in Telet, to study. She was studying Spanish. |
| 1:29.1 | And the same semester, I was trying to improve my English. |
| 1:33.2 | So we decided to start a tandem meeting. |
| 1:37.5 | He would teach me how to speak English. |
| 1:39.7 | I would teach her how to speak Spanish or improve our level. |
| 1:43.6 | And at first we were like five different people and by the weeks go by and at the end it was |
| 1:51.9 | just the two of us for two or three months. |
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