Perseverance To Keep An Awesome Marriage | Ep. 487
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kim often says there is no coasting in an awesome marriage. Marriage isn't something that you do once then just sit back and ignore. It is always moving. The question is, are you moving it forward, or slipping backward? Today Dr. Kim and Christina discuss why and how perseverance matters in marriage. Join us for practical tips and encouragement to keep making your marriage awesome!
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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 Kimmerling. |
| 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. |
| 0:29.6 | Today we were talking about perseverance. The thing about building an awesome marriage is you're never done. |
| 0:35.3 | It's not a house that gets built and then you can just live in it. |
| 0:38.4 | You have to keep the walls up. You have to keep pouring the foundation. It gets a lot easier |
| 0:43.2 | with time, but you cannot coast. So how do we keep that perseverance? That's what we're going |
| 0:49.0 | to discuss today. If you're new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday. |
| 0:53.3 | And on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special guest interview. |
| 0:57.5 | If you could, go ahead and hit subscribe so that you can join us each and every Tuesday. |
| 1:02.1 | So, Dr. Kim, why is coasting in marriage not an option? |
| 1:07.0 | What happens when we try to coast? |
| 1:09.1 | I guess one of my new, I guess you've of mantras is that your marriage never stand still. |
| 1:13.4 | It's either been forwards or backwards. |
| 1:15.0 | It really doesn't stand still. |
| 1:17.6 | So things that happen each day, words that are said, how are those affecting my marriage, all those kind of things. |
| 1:23.2 | And so I think a lot of times we know we need to work our marriage. |
| 1:26.7 | And so we do. |
| 1:28.4 | And it gets to a good place and then we think okay we've made it and and maybe it's gradual but you will slide backwards |
| 1:35.4 | you just have to continue to be intentional every day I think that's why people have loved our one |
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