The Little Things | Ep. 395
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We love romance and it's easy to think that when your marriage is struggling or needs a boost - some big romantic gestures will fix it. But what makes a marriage awesome is not the big things, more often than not it's the little things. The daily practices, the rhythms and routines we create as habits, the small things done over a consistent period of time that really make the difference in marriage.
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk about just that - the little things that make a marriage awesome.
Subscribe to Podcast Email to make sure you never miss an episode and get noteworthy quotes, resources, and more delivered straight to your inbox!
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
- "Letting our spouse know we're thinking about them when they don't think we're thinking about them makes a difference." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
- "The surprise connection points and planned consistent connection are the little things that really matter." - Christina Dodson
- "An important little thing is making time to do whatever your spouse loves." - Christina Dodson
- "Love doesn't have to be a dramatic gesture to be love. It has to be intentional and small daily practices." - Christina Dodson
- "The little things you do in your marriage are like the foundation of a house; you can't see it but if it begins to break the whole house is in trouble." - Christina Dodson
SPONSORS
- Thank you to Honoring Intimates for sponsoring this podcast episode! Honoring Intimates is a safe place for believers to learn about marital sex and shop for the highest quality lubricant, lotions, and lingerie items at reasonable prices. There are no inappropriate images on the site and the company uses mannequins to display their lingerie. Use the code "AWESOMEMARRIAGE" to receive 20% off your entire order.
RESOURCES
- Want to talk about sex?! Take our Love Making Survey to open up the way for you and your spouse to work towards better sex and intimacy in marriage! This month's resource is our Love Making Survey and it is designed to help you have a safe, genuine conversation about your sex life with your spouse. This survey is a nonthreatening way to evaluate your sex together. The questions are designed to get you thinking about all aspects of your love making and to shed light on ways your sex could be more satisfying.
- Become a Marriage Changer and receive some sweet exclusive benefits. Learn more here!
- Sign up to get Dr. Kim's One Thing To Grow Your Marriage Each Day via email, text, or podcast here!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We love romance, and it's easy to think that when your marriage is struggling or needs a boost, |
| 0:13.0 | something big and romantic will fix it. But what makes a marriage awesome is not really the big |
| 0:18.1 | things. More often than not, it's the little things, the daily practices, |
| 0:21.8 | the rhythms and routines that we create as habits. Today we're going to be talking about just |
| 0:25.9 | that, the little things that make a marriage awesome. We pray you find this episode helpful. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and |
| 0:37.0 | practical advice on how to have a God honoring awesome marriage. I am place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice |
| 0:37.8 | on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show |
| 0:43.1 | will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 |
| 0:48.3 | years. His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 1:04.5 | So Dr. Kim, what are some examples of the little things that matter? |
| 1:09.3 | Of course, I'm probably talking from our perspective and the things that Nancy likes the little things. And then I hear couples |
| 1:11.1 | in counseling talk about the things. I think the little things that seem to work well for us, |
| 1:15.9 | they're unexpected things. Like maybe the things like wherever, like, you know, Nancy and I usually |
| 1:21.0 | go work out the same place. We go different times. And when I'm leaving and if her car's there, |
| 1:25.6 | I can leave a note for and she likes that |
| 1:27.9 | that just kind of make okay you thought of me in the middle of day I think it's the |
| 1:30.8 | same thing of sending each other a text or an emoji or bit moji during the day |
| 1:35.3 | things that that I think just anytime we let our spouse know we're thinking |
| 1:39.5 | about them when they don't think we're thinking about them I think makes a |
| 1:43.4 | difference you know and that the other something she did a couple of weeks ago what she has a when they don't think we're thinking about them, I think makes a difference. |
| 1:48.1 | You know, and the other something she did a couple of weeks ago, she has a, and we've talked about it on the podcast before, and we've even given the recipe of her taco soup. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Kim Kimberling, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Kim Kimberling and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.