Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.

I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.

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

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most

intimate relationship. The words of our spouse can either lift us up or tear us down. What we

speak gives either life or death to our spouse. When we talk negatively about our spouse,

we give in to more negative thinking about our spouse. Today we're going to be talking about

this destructive habit and how to avoid it.

We're going to talk about not speaking negatively about your spouse.

So Dr. Kim, why should we not speak negatively about our spouse?

Well, I think the first thing I heard some, you know, and I think if your goal really is to have

an awesome marriage, I've stuck some people up this week.

If you said that as your goal out there then everything you do needs to be towards that and and if anything you're doing is

against that then why are you doing it's so yeah speaking negative about your spouse i think it hurts them

i think you know if you're around other people it really makes you look bad i mean i've been around

that and it it makes me feel sorry for the person that's getting said about.

And the other person I'm thinking, why are you being such a jerk?

And I've seen men and women both do it.

It's not, you know, I've seen both do it.

Just really but negative about their spouse.

And I think it hurts your marriage. And so I think all of those things go into it that they're just nothing good

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