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.

I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most

intimate relationship. Many couples find themselves in major debt or hit a roadblock due to job

loss or other financial burden that puts some in crisis mode. Many marriages struggle to

survive a financial crisis. Today we're going to be talking about what to do if you find

yourself there and ways to keep your marriage strong so that you can grow through it and battle it

together. Dr. Gabe, what are some of the most common financial crises that you end up seeing?

I think credit card debt is a huge thing in our culture. It's so easy. I can remember when Grant

was getting ready to graduate from college his last

year and all the credit card things that he was getting. They didn't have maybe a high amount that he

could charge on it, but it was like, oh my gosh, you know, he'd get like one a day for 20 days. And so that,

and Grant was pretty good because he talked to me about it. We kind of talked about it, you know, what to do.

He had a friend that ended up probably in six months had like $10,000 of credit card debt because he took him and did that.

And so sometimes it happened to people bring that into marriage.

Certainly that's a crisis.

Sometimes within marriage, you could create credit card debt.

And when you have credit, use credit cards, you know, every way to pay it off.

It's going to cause stress and a problem.

And I think the other thing I think, and credit cards may a part of this, but overextending.

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