The Disconnected Marriage | Ep. 483
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Is your marriage what you dreamed it would be? None of us will ever have a perfect marriage - it's just not humanly possible! But there are ways to shrink the gap between your marriage hopes and your marriage reality, and it is worth the work! Today Dr. Kim and Christina give you practical ways to do just that. Tune in to learn real, simple, time-tested ways to grow the connection in your marriage.
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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. |
| 0:29.6 | Today we are looking at the disconnected marriage and how to avoid having a disconnected |
| 0:34.5 | marriage. If you're new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday, and on the last Tuesday |
| 0:38.9 | of every month, it is a special guest interview. |
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| 0:45.5 | buddies with us every week. |
| 0:47.6 | So, Dr. Kim, what does a disconnected marriage look like? |
| 0:52.3 | You know, I think one definition I like is two strangers living under the same |
| 0:56.1 | roof. |
| 0:57.2 | And because I think, I think that they're just existing together because I think that couples |
| 1:02.9 | that maybe they live and fight all the time together, they're connected, not in a healthy way, |
| 1:07.3 | but a pretty unhealthy way. |
| 1:08.8 | But disconnected, I think, is where you're just there. |
| 1:10.7 | It's a surface relationship, but you're just not communicating much. |
| 1:14.7 | You're just kind of like, I don't really know you because you haven't really shared anything |
| 1:17.9 | other than you need bread today, you know, for 20 years. |
| 1:21.7 | And so to me, that's it. |
| 1:23.8 | You're not getting out of marriage what you need. And it's just like, |
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