Mind Your Marriage: How To Create Margin In Marriage | Ep. 585

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Christianity, Society & Culture, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

You can reduce the stress and conflict in your marriage simply by creating margin. Today's episode unpacks several practical ways to create margin in your marriage. Scripture demonstrates how essential a healthy mindset is, so all month we're getting practical about how to cultivate a healthy mindset and a healthy marriage. Tune into today's episode to learn how to create margin in your marriage.

We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage!

Episode highlights include:

The practice Dr. Kim recommends to help you build margin into your marriage and the free resource we offer to make this simple to do
Mindset shifts to help you find margin
Practical ways to prioritize your marriage

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

QUOTES

"It's not just carving out more time for each other, it's how you use that time." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"We talk about your home and marriage being a refuge. You want to create that." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"It's worth the effort to get intentional about this and get on the same page, so you can tackle it as a team." Lindsay Few
"Learning to really listen makes a big difference. There's so much value to feeling heard, and knowing that your spouse cares to really listen." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"One thing that really helped us is when we realized we were not each other's enemy." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"Be ok with being counter cultural if that's what's best for your family and your marriage." - Dr. Kim Kimberling

QUESTIONS:

How can you and your spouse work together to create more margin in your marriage?
How can you work together to create a culture of grace in your marriage?
What do you really want for your marriage? What do you need to say no to in this season to make that happen?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Contentment doesn't come easily, but is more than worth the effort. Take the steps to grow your contentment with our 15-Day Contentment Challenge! It's yours for a donation of ANY amount to the ministry of Awesome Marriage this Giving Tuesday!
Dr. Kim highly recommends a Weekly Check In for every couple – so to make this simple for you, we have created a Weekly Marriage Check In Guide. You can snag this resource for free when you sign up for the One Thing to Grow Your Marriage email series!
We really enjoyed the book "Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" mentioned in today's episode

Transcript

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0:00.0	Does your life needs a margin and does your marriage?
0:07.6	Margin is countercultural in a world that is bursting with busyness, but it's also very helpful
0:13.5	for marriage.
0:14.6	Margin can be created starting with our mindset.
0:17.9	Learn some ways to do that today.
0:24.1	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast,
0:29.6	a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.
0:36.2	I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. On the show will be our host Dr. Kim Kim Kimberly. Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been
0:40.0	married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.
0:49.3	I'm so excited to dive into this timely topic. It is so needed. But before we do, I want to
0:56.1	remind you about our One Thing to Grow Your Marriage daily email from Dr. Kim.
1:01.5	Every single weekday, you get this quick, simple email that tells you something you can do
1:06.2	that day to be intentional about building your marriage. And they are great, actionable tips.
1:11.9	You can sign up for that at awesomemarriage.com slash one thing.
1:14.7	And when you do, we have an incredible bonus resource for you,
1:17.8	which is our weekly marriage check-in.
1:20.6	And this is an incredible way to build margin into your marriage.
1:24.7	It helps you look at what you've got going on with your spouse,
1:27.6	with your life that week. Make sure to check that out at awesomemarriage.com slash one thing.
1:32.2	It's a free resource for you. So Dr. Kim, as we're starting off, let's begin by defining
1:38.0	margin as it pertains to marriage. Yeah, because I think most of us kind of think of margin.
1:43.2	I do finances.
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