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.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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So this month on Awesome Marriage, we've been talking about habits that lead to divorce and how to avoid them in your own marriage so you can

prevent that. So today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about one particular habit that

can lead to divorce and that's separate things. So Dr. Kim, what are some of the most common

separate things that you see couples doing in the

counseling room?

You know, I think there's a lot of things couples do now. And it's not like I just see a couple do one or two things.

I mean, I think couples as they get married and we're going to the premier couple right now,

and we're talking about friends. And they both really have separate friend groups because they just didn't know each other

before and talking about how do we how do we do we do we continue to have our separate friends

do we develop friends together so I think friends can be one of those things bank accounts I think

that's a huge issue I see every couple dealing with in pre-marriage and a lot of couples in marriage. How do we handle

our bank accounts? Do we have one account? Do we have three accounts? Do we have separate account? How do we

handle that? Those are separateness. I think anytime you get into money, you've got the

possibility of conflict and problems coming out of that. And so I think that's something we probably

should kind of talk on a little bit.

You know, the couples, every time once in a while I see a couple and they're sleeping in

separate beds or separate rooms.

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