Today we're talking about the right and wrong ways to apologize to your spouse.

Apologies are necessary. Since we're human and fallen, we should be apologizing regularly.

Dr. Kim shares some great practical advice on what to do and not to do when it comes to apologizing

in marriage. And I personally have a list of like 20 different ways not to apologize, so I'm not

sure what that says about me and my marriage, but I hope you'll gain some wisdom from this

episode. We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.

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 co-host, Christina Dodson.

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

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

Dr. Kim, why is it important to learn how to apologize well?

Basically, you're going to screw up.

And your spouse almost, my spouse certainly,

almost always knows it when I screw up.

So for us, it's to restore the relationship.

And, you know, it just puts things,

it's to own up to what you've done or said.

And I think even little things.

I mean, you know, just we really, it took me hard.

I think time, long time, just to really figure out how to the value of apologizing.

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