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 Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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This month, The Awesome Marriage, we're talking about decision making and marriage. Each week on the podcast, we'll be talking

about a different topic related to decision making, learning to handle decisions together as a

team is a critical part of having an awesome, healthy marriage. So today we're going to focus

on talking about how to share responsibility when

it comes to decision making. So to kick things off, Dr. Kim, why are we even talking about

decision making in marriage this month? Why is this such a critical topic for so many couples?

You know, I was thinking about this. I think when Nancy and I, before we got married,

I don't think we ever talked about decision making. It was always got like the decisions were like, do you want to go here, here to eat or something like that.

And then you get married and you realize there's some things you've got to talk about.

And there's some things you've got decisions you've got to make.

And some of them are minor.

You know, like, yes, first, where to go to dinner and things like that.

Some are more significant that. and then all of a sudden you have kids in the play. You have to learn how to make decisions. And I've seen couples that never really get that early in marriage.

And then they struggle with it for a long time and tell you if they come to counseling or they

have fights all the time or those kind of things.

So I think it's a critical topic because it's something that we all have to face and we all

got to figure it out.

And I think it's just taking the time what I hope people do after this podcast is say, hey, if we're not doing this well, if we kind of need to work on

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