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.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith.

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This month, The Awesome Marriage, we're talking about decision making and marriage. Each week on the podcast will be talking about a different

topic related to decision making. Learning to handle decisions together as a team is a critical

part of having a healthy awesome marriage. Today we're going to focus on talking about making

major like decisions and how to deal with that in a healthy way. So Dr. Cave to focus on talking about making major-like decisions and how to

deal with that in a healthy way. So Dr. Cave, what are some of the major-like decisions that

many of us couples face? Yeah, there's a lot of them. I was thinking through this morning and

there's so many things that become major. But I think the ones I see couples struggle with the most

or they come up to like when counseling, financial decisions come up you know big financial decisions sometimes day-to-day but really the big ones

about buying a home or buying a car or something else that's going to be a big expenditure um kids you know

when when you're going to at the beginning are you going to have kids you're not going to have

kids how many kids do you want to have?

And then once the kids get there, what are you the decisions that come with that?

Where are you going to educate them?

Some big things that really do impact the kids and impact you guys too. You're going to, one thing that Nancy and I did after the first year of marriage, we looked at each other and we each were heavier than we had ever been in our lives.

And we thought, if we keep eating like this and not exercising, we're going to die in about five years.

So we made a major life decision there.

Health.

We wanted to be healthy.

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