Maximizing Your Dinner Time | Ep. 211
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Quality time for couples and families is one of the best things to help us stay connected and yet it can be one of the hardest things to accomplish in our busy, fast paced culture we live in. This month at Awesome Marriage we are talking about quality time in marriage and different ways to find quality time. Today on the podcast Dr. Kim and Christina discuss practical ways to maximize your dinner time for quality time.
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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 Nill Smith. |
| 0:15.7 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:23.9 | Quality of time for couples and families is one of the best things to help just stay connected. And yet it can be one of the hardest things to really |
| 0:28.5 | accomplish, especially in our busy, busy culture. That's fast pace and we're always moving. |
| 0:33.0 | So this month's awesome marriage, we really wanted to take some time to talk about quality |
| 0:36.7 | time in marriage and the different ways to find quality time. Today we're going to be talking specifically |
| 0:41.6 | about maximizing your dinner time. So kind of to kick things off since this is the first podcast this |
| 0:47.1 | month, Dr. Kim, what is quality time in general? Like how would you define quality time? |
| 0:53.4 | I think it's a great question because I think |
| 0:55.2 | some people don't really know what that means and they think if you're just sitting together |
| 0:59.0 | on the couch for an hour that you've had quality time because you're just watching a TV show. |
| 1:03.6 | So I think it has to involve connection of some sort. And so whether that's communication, |
| 1:08.5 | playing a game together, doing something together, but we can really focus on each other. |
| 1:12.7 | I mean, there's nothing wrong with sitting and watching TV together if you watch a show together, |
| 1:16.5 | but that may not qualify as quality time unless you're interacting a lot on it or something |
| 1:20.6 | like that or something you guys enjoy together, then I would count that as that. |
| 1:23.8 | But I think quality time is you've got to be connecting with your spouse at some way. You've got to be, it's got to be emotional, physical, you know, mental, |
| 1:30.9 | some kind of connection there that really is, you know, moving your marriage forward because |
| 1:36.0 | you're having that time together that you really enjoy together and it just strengthens |
| 1:39.6 | a marriage relationship. Yeah, I agree. I think there has to be some level of like eye |
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