Mind Your Marriage: Learn to Break Free From Blame | Ep. 583
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Has blame crept into your marriage? If so, your marriage is certainly suffering its effects. But it does not have to stay that way! Today Dr. Kim helps you discover how to identify and remove this damaging habit from your marriage.
Scripture is clear that our mindset matters, and that we have the ability to change our minds! So this month we're digging into how to cultivate a healthy mindset and a healthy marriage. Dig in today to start dismantling the blame.
Episode highlights include:
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How to identify - and break - subtle blame patterns
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Why expecting each spouse to give their 50% share to the marriage just doesn't add up
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Dr. Kim and Lindsay get real about how blame has impacted their marriages
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How to remove blame from our efforts to show our spouse love
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How to address the issue healthily instead
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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Dr. Kim mentioned this article from Harvard Health in the episode
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Contentment doesn't come easily, but it's SO worth the work! Get our 15-Day Contentment Challenge with a donation of ANY amount to the ministry of Awesome Marriage this Giving Tuesday! Learn more here!
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15 Daily Prayers Bundle
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More mindset resources:
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Dr. Kim's Mind Craft Plan
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Switch On Your Brain by Dr. Leaf (includes the "21-Day Brain Detox")
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is blame sneaking into your marriage? |
| 0:03.6 | Do you take responsibility for your part or do you just wish and wait for your spouse to change? |
| 0:09.4 | Today we're uncovering some ways you might not have noticed blame your marriage in talking about |
| 0:13.8 | how you can break free from its damaging impact. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical |
| 0:24.4 | advice on how to build an awesome marriage. I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay |
| 0:30.0 | Few. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been |
| 0:37.0 | married for over 50 years. His passion is to |
| 0:40.5 | help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. The idea for this topic kind of snuck in |
| 0:48.3 | one of our conversations when we realized that blame could be playing an underlying part in many |
| 0:53.0 | marriage issues. So before we dive into this topic, |
| 0:56.3 | I want to let you know. We do have a weekly podcast email that we send, and it contains the |
| 1:01.6 | podcast episode, podcast transcript, great quotes, all the resources we mentioned, application |
| 1:08.0 | questions, and sometimes other things just we want to let you know about. So make sure |
| 1:12.9 | that you're subscribed to that. If you haven't already, you'd find that link to subscribe in today's |
| 1:17.1 | show notes. So Dr. Kim, I know you see this in the counseling room. How often do you hear couples |
| 1:23.8 | just come right out and blame each other. Often. |
| 1:28.3 | A lot because, you know, if it's probably a reason, you know, a number of people come in for |
| 1:33.7 | counseling because they can't resolve things. |
| 1:35.4 | And so we have this tendency, I think, to point our finger at our spouse instead of looking |
| 1:41.0 | at ourselves first because I think looking in the mirror is difficult for us. |
| 1:45.3 | You know, so we'd rather, you know, started with Adam and Eve. |
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