The Insecure Spouse | Ep. 484
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Has you or your spouse's insecurity affected your marriage? We're all insecure about something, and the way we see ourselves will end up spilling over into the way we relate to others. Nowhere is this more likely to happen than in marriage. In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina share practical ways to address your insecurity and your spouse's insecurity, including a surprising way Dr. Kim has learned to turn his weaknesses to strengths. Tune in for wisdom and practical tips.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and 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. |
| 0:28.2 | Today we are looking at insecurity issues. We all have insecurities, but some of ours affect us |
| 0:34.3 | more than others. When one spouse has a big insecurity issue, it often spills |
| 0:39.2 | into the marriage. We want to give you some practical tips on how to navigate insecurities in a |
| 0:44.3 | marriage. If you are new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday and on the last Tuesday |
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| 0:54.6 | listening so that you can tune in each and every week as we help you build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:59.6 | So, Dr. Kim, do you see a lot of couples in the counseling room with insecurities? |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, I think most couples have insecurities. One or the other, probably both of them. I think |
| 1:08.5 | it's something we probably bring into marriage. |
| 1:11.2 | It's kind of some of the baggage we usually care or carry, and then some of it occurs because |
| 1:15.4 | of things that happen in the marriage. And I think just some ways insecurity just goes with |
| 1:20.1 | the culture we live in. I'm not beautiful enough. I'm not handsome enough. I'm not skinny enough. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm not, you know, somebody's always better than me. We'll go through this comparison thing, which is so unhealthy, but it puts us in a negative position and more insecure. |
| 1:33.9 | And then I think there's the things that affect a marriage directly. Fear of living a spouse, |
| 1:39.9 | jealousies that come in, electronic checking that. It's my spouse checking and doing something there, or there's a text you don't understand, |
| 1:48.6 | and you don't ask them, and so then you start feeling insecure, get paranoid. |
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