Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

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

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

Today we are looking at managing margin in marriage. Today we're going to be talking

specifically about time and energy and how to manage that for your family.

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So, Dr. Kim, first of all, what even is margin?

I think where I first heard, it was really with Dame Ramsey,

and we talked about financial margin and his idea of that, you know,

you want margin there.

You want a lot more coming in or as much you can more coming in than you have going out.

Well, okay, if we say we put that on top of marriage,

I think it's a couple things. One, I think it's, it's carving out more time for each other. It's making sure that we have that time and we're

intentional about it. We're consistent with it. But the other thing is, how do we use that creates

margin too? For example, like if I'm going to meet Nancy for dinner and say usually she's late,

okay, I'm sitting there there waiting she's 30 minutes late

I've got a choice then I can say you're always late I'm so tired of waiting you know why can't

you be here on time which is going to tank the whole evening basically or I can say you know I know

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