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 Nell Smith.

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This month, Awesome Marriage, we're talking about subtle marriage killers. All couples have great intentions of having a happy and healthy

marriage, but so many of us end up getting off track and there are subtle things that can

really eat away at a marriage. So today we're going to be talking about one subtle marriage killer

that we've all probably encountered, which is busyness. So Dr. Kim, why do you think we're going to be talking about one subtle marriage killer that we've all probably encountered, which is busyness.

So Dr. Kim, why do you think we're all so tempted by this?

Why are we so tempted by busyness in our culture today?

It's almost got, it's just kind of the catchphrase.

If you ask them how are they doing, it's busy.

I mean, you hear that word all the time. And it didn't used to be that way. I'm not sure when we

started using that, but I think it is just a reflection of our culture and we stay busy. And I think

most of us are overextended and for probably a bunch of different reasons. You know, I think sometimes we

think, well, if we're busy, we look successful or sound successful or we've got to keep doing this and and our kids we've got to

keep them busy and and you know and so we just get in this kind of rat race it's become so cultural

and i think it's so easy for us to fall into that trap and then the things that we're doing to stay

busy something's got to suffer yeah you. You can't do it all.

And usually it's going to be a relationship.

Yeah, absolutely.

That brings a really good point to you because you're kind of saying, but like the why,

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