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 statistics about how often the average person lies is really alarming.

Like, I mean, it depends on what article you read, but some say 30 times a day, sometimes 50 times

a day, sometimes 10 times a day, regardless, regardless of a lot. And to be honest,

those stats are probably wrong because we're all lying about how much we lie. But, you know,

the fact of the matter is so many of us are way too comfortable with lying and way too comfortable

with lying to our spouse. So in today's episode, we're going to talk about the small lies,

how small deceptions and our comfortability with these small lives are affecting our marriages. So Dr. Kim, why do you think

we are so comfortable with lying? Yeah, I think one thing, I think where some people becomes a

habit, and you know, especially for whatever reason, you know, and I think for a lot of us,

in our mind, it works.

I mean, it's usually short term because if people found out we were lying, it wouldn't

work long term. But I think it's, I don't know, I think it's accepted more. People aren't

called out on it more. There's, and so I don't think we're conscious of it. And I think the

fact that it works reinforces that. And that's, that's not good, because I don't think we're conscious of it. And I think the fact that it works reinforces that.

And that's not good because I don't want a deal.

I don't want to lie about things.

I remember our pastor was doing a deal on.

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