Restoring Trust | Ep. 266
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Has trust been broken in your marriage? In big ways? In small ways?
If both spouses are willing to commit to restoring trust and to submit to God, trust can be restored. We have seen God do it again and again in marriages within our Awesome Marriage Community.
In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina share some hope, helpful tips, and encouragement for you today if you are in a place where trust needs to be restored in your marriage.
Tune in to learn more about restoring trust in marriage!
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
"The first step you have to do is take personal responsibility." - Dr. Kim
"Restoring trust takes time. The person who broke the trust has to be consistent to rebuild trust. The other side of it, the person whose trust has been broken has to be willing to take a risk again." - Dr. Kim
"The person who broke the trust you need to ask your spouse, 'what do you need from me to build trust?'" - Dr. Kim
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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 have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. Today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about restoring trust. |
| 0:29.1 | If both spouses are willing and committed to this and they submit to God, trust can absolutely |
| 0:34.1 | be restored to a marriage, no matter what took place to break that trust. |
| 0:38.0 | We have seen God do it again and again and again within our awesome marriage community. |
| 0:42.0 | We hope to share some hope today, some helpful tips, and some encouragement for you today |
| 0:46.5 | if you are in the place where trust needs to be restored in your marriage. |
| 0:50.1 | So Dr. Kim, I feel like it's really important to define some terms a little bit here. |
| 0:54.2 | Restoring trust and reconciliation are not the same thing. So Dr. Kim, I feel like it's really important to define some terms a little bit here. Restoring trust and reconciliation are not the same thing. |
| 0:57.9 | So Dr. Kim, how would you define restoring trust? |
| 1:00.5 | And that's what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, I think I looked up the word restoration on the online dictionary. |
| 1:09.4 | And it said that restoration of friendly relationships of, |
| 1:14.4 | and then I think so it's a commitment to, I think, reconcile. |
| 1:19.3 | And then step two is restoring trust, |
| 1:21.2 | it becomes that process that you do that. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:25.0 | I think, you know, restoring trust is not forgiveness, but rather it displays your commitment |
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