Moving Past Superficial Connection | Ep. 453
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today Dr. Kim and Christina talk about the connection we have with our spouse. What does a deeper connection look like? Is it possible to have that in the midst of a busy life? Is it too late to move past superficial connection if that's what we're used to? Join us as they discuss practical ways to assess and improve the connection in your marriage.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:26.6 | Communication and connection are key in a marriage, but it's easy to settle for a superficial |
| 0:35.3 | connection, but we don't want to do that. We don't |
| 0:38.3 | want to settle. We want you to have an awesome deep connection and build your awesome marriage on it. |
| 0:43.6 | Today we're going to be talking all about moving past the superficial and giving you ideas on how to |
| 0:48.1 | better connect with your spouse. Dr. Kim, what does a superficial connection look like in marriage? |
| 0:54.0 | It's such a good question. I think it's no connection at all. I think it's really, |
| 0:59.1 | the way we define connection at us of marriage, which really is something that just draws couples |
| 1:04.7 | close together. So I think it's a surface level relationship. I think there's no depth in it. |
| 1:10.7 | Now, in some relationships, |
| 1:12.4 | that works fine. It may be at work, casual acquaintances, but it never works that way in marriage. |
| 1:17.8 | You can't have a superficial connection in marriage and expect to have anything close to an |
| 1:23.1 | awesome marriage. Yeah, yeah, that is a great point. I think, yeah, superficial connection means |
| 1:29.4 | you don't really, really know your spouse. And I'm not saying your spouse is never going to |
| 1:34.8 | surprise you, but I think for the most part, a good connection means you know them and you know them |
| 1:40.1 | deeply. Yes, I think so. And that's what we really, I think that's what we all want going |
| 1:43.9 | into marriage. I don't think we want that. We don't want a relationship where we |
| 1:47.0 | exist together. And, you know, I've had some couples over the years that I think about |
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