Protecting Your Marriage From An Emotional Affair | Ep. 195
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Is your marriage at risk to an emotional affair online? This month at Awesome Marriage we are talking about guarding your marriage online. Because technology and the internet are so infused in our daily lives, we have to put smart boundaries in place to guard our marriages from the temptations it poses. One of the biggest temptations being: starting up an emotional affair. Today on the podcast Dr. Kim and Christina discuss protecting your marriage from emotional affairs online.
Tune in to learn more about how to protect your marriage from this!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:11.9 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:22.7 | Well, this one, the Awesome Marriage, we're going to be talking about guarding your marriage online. Each week of the podcast, |
| 0:26.3 | we'll share one way that you can guard your marriage online. Today, we're going to be talking |
| 0:29.8 | specifically about protecting your marriage from an emotional affair. Dr. Kim, to kind of kick |
| 0:35.4 | things off, let's talk about that. What is an emotional affair? |
| 0:38.7 | If you had to define it, what would you say? Sure. We know what, most of them know what affair is. |
| 0:43.2 | We think about that is you're having sex with somebody outside of marriage. So emotional affair, |
| 0:47.7 | I think, is you're doing everything but sex. I mean, you're investing in that person, |
| 0:52.0 | you're caring about that person, you're connected to that person, you're, you're caring about that person, you're connected to that |
| 0:55.7 | person, you're having feelings and emotions for that person. And, you know, to me, that's really |
| 1:01.2 | what an emotional fear is all about. There's no sex in it because that's just emotional. But my gosh, |
| 1:06.1 | you're giving everything else. Yeah, certainly. I agree. I think it's really an affair of the heart is what I've |
| 1:12.1 | heard it call before. And I couldn't agree more. I think when you're seeking emotional intimacy |
| 1:16.3 | with someone other than your spouse, that's an emotional affair. And typically what I find is it |
| 1:21.8 | begins with friendship and then it eases into light flirting and then all of a sudden it's a full-blown |
| 1:26.3 | emotional affair. |
| 1:31.7 | And I think the hard thing about this in our culture is we hate calling things what they are. |
| 1:36.0 | Dylan was just talking about this in a sermon not all that long ago about how our culture hates to just call things what it is. |
| 1:38.4 | And so instead of, you know, saying that we sin, we say, oh, I made a mistake, you know, |
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