Seeing Your Spouse's Value | Ep. 467
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Do you need to say "thank you" to your spouse over and over again? Or tell them you love them, even though they already know it? It can be so easy to take our spouse for granted. So today we are talking about seeing and acknowledging your spouse's value. We are going to talk about some areas people want to be appreciated in, and why noticing and verbalizing these things is a BIG part of having an awesome marriage.
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RESOURCES
- Learning to communicate effectively as a couple will reduce unnecessary arguments and strengthen your bond as a couple. The 30 DAY COMMUNICATION CHALLENGE will help you and your spouse growing in communication intimacy with one another.
- Dr. Kim mentions Atomic Habits, a book he and Dylan both really appreciated.
- Our brand new 30-Day Communication Challenge is a great follow up to today's conversation! Check it out for some great ways to grow the communication in your marriage.
- Our 21 day Husband Encouragement Challenge and Wife Appreciation Challenge will help you jump start the appreciation habit!
- We know there are more than 31 reasons why you love your spouse. But how often do you get to tell them? The 31 Things I Love About You resource will encourage you to share those ways with your awesome spouse.
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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 Kimberling. |
| 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. |
| 0:27.1 | Today we're going to be talking about seeing and acknowledging your spouse's value. |
| 0:33.5 | We are going to talk all about noticing the work they do, the value they provide, and who they are. |
| 0:38.6 | And why noticing these things and verbalizing these things is a big part of having an awesome marriage. |
| 0:44.7 | If you are new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday. |
| 0:48.2 | And on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special guest interview. |
| 0:52.0 | Be sure to go ahead and hit subscribe in whatever podcast app you |
| 0:55.1 | are listening to so that you can join us every week. So, Dr. Kim, what does it mean to see and |
| 1:01.4 | acknowledge our spouse's value? I think it's something that we do really well when we're dating. |
| 1:06.5 | We see why this person is someone I once been the rest of my life with. We're usually complimenting them on the things that we see in them that we value and we do that really well. And |
| 1:15.7 | then we get married and we want to spend the rest of our lives with that person and we want to |
| 1:19.8 | be that to continue enrich. But I think sometimes we just lose sight and we don't say the things |
| 1:25.9 | that we were saying before, even though sometimes we might think them, you know, but and we don't say the things that we were saying before, even though sometimes |
| 1:27.8 | we may think them, you know, but we just don't say them. So I think it's, I think it's important |
| 1:32.4 | to acknowledge it not only to our spouse, but to ourselves, just remind ourselves, you know, |
| 1:37.9 | I need to remind myself of what I value in Nancy. And when I see those things or see those |
| 1:43.0 | in hers here, do those things, that I let her know or see those in hers here do those things that |
| 1:45.2 | that I let her know that and so I think it's something that is really important and it |
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