Preparing Well For The Holidays | Ep. 368
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The holidays are coming and that excites some of you but stresses others out. The holidays season, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas can put a lot of extras on our calendars and in our budgets. It can be a time where couples fight a lot or expectations aren't met.
All of us want to have good holidays with our spouse and family, but often we don't prepare well so that we can execute that well.
In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk about holiday marital stress and how to prepare for the holidays with your spouse.
Tune in to learn how to prepare well for the holidays!
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
- "You have to increase your knowledge and awareness of each other in your marriage." - Christina
- "Don't wait until the week before a holiday to let family know if you're changing your usual holiday plans." - Dr. Kim
- "Have your holiday plans set by October to avoid stress later on." - Dr. Kim
- "Have conversations with your spouse about how to make the holidays less stressful." - Dr. Kim
- "Make sure there's alone time for just you and your spouse in the holiday plans." - Dr. Kim
- "Decide what your priorities are for your family for the holidays." - Dr. Kim
- "Boundaries aren't punitive, they're for saving relationships." - Dr. Kim
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The holidays are coming and that excite some of you, but stresses others of you out. |
| 0:08.1 | The holiday season, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas, can put a lot of extras on our calendar |
| 0:12.4 | and in our budgets. |
| 0:13.9 | It can be a time where couples fight a lot or expectations just aren't met. |
| 0:18.3 | All of us want to have good holidays with our spouse and family, |
| 0:21.2 | but often we don't prepare well, so then we can't execute that well. Today, Dr. Kim and I |
| 0:26.1 | are going to be talking about holiday marital stress and how to prepare well for the holidays |
| 0:29.9 | with your spouse. Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations |
| 0:35.9 | about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage., a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to |
| 0:38.3 | have a God honoring awesome marriage. I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:44.2 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been |
| 0:48.9 | married for over 40 years. His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:57.0 | So Dr. Kim, why are the holidays just so stressful? |
| 1:02.3 | You know, I think the first two things that come to my mind is us and the expectations we put |
| 1:07.1 | on ourselves and other people put on us. And then I think relationships with other people. |
| 1:11.7 | I mean, those are the things that I say when I'm dealing with people in the holiday season and |
| 1:15.3 | they're coming in and all of a sudden they're talking about holidays, the stress oven and everything. |
| 1:19.9 | It's like, I've got all these people to buy for or I've got this, this and this to do. I've got |
| 1:24.4 | so much on my calendar or we have to have so and so at Christmas or |
| 1:30.0 | Christmas Eve and I can't stand them being our house or, you know, things like that. And so I think |
| 1:34.5 | we get caught up in all of that stuff. And, you know, and so many times people tell me after that, |
| 1:39.0 | I miss the meaning of Christmas this year because I'm so caught up and all the other stuff. |
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