The Worst Marriage Advice We've Heard | Ep. 529
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Have you gotten bad marriage advice? We sure have! We've heard so many things that just aren't helpful for marriage, but we didn't always realize it! Trying to follow a harmful piece of marriage will damage your marriage over time. So today we call out bad marriage advice, give ways to prevent yourself from falling prey to it, and help you determine what's good advice, and what's worth tossing out.
Episode highlights include:
- How to tell whether it's good advice or not
- The downside of getting marriage advice online
- Plus Dr. Kim answers an listener question about a spouse who refuses to go to church
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Bad advice can be irritating, but it can even be |
| 0:33.5 | damaging. And when it comes to bad marriage advice, we have heard some dozies. So today, |
| 0:38.8 | Dr. Kim and I are sharing some of the bad marriage advice we've heard over the years in hopes |
| 0:44.0 | that you can call out the bad advice you've heard for what it is and just chuck it. |
| 0:48.4 | You know, we're so glad you guys are listening today, especially with this great topic. |
| 0:51.8 | If the podcast has helped your marriage, please take a minute to |
| 0:56.0 | leave us a rating and a review. It's really one of the best ways to make us more visible to people |
| 1:01.1 | that really haven't found us yet. And there's a lot of marriage content out there, and we're |
| 1:05.5 | passionate about bringing God's purpose for marriage into the podcast space. You can help us make |
| 1:10.6 | that happen. I'd ask you |
| 1:11.7 | to do that. Yeah, that really does help so much, so we appreciate it. So first off, as we tackle |
| 1:17.9 | this topic today, we're not doing this to pick on people or to throw anyone under the bus. |
| 1:22.6 | But really, it's helpful to recognize when a piece of advice is bad so that you don't feel like you have to keep following it. |
| 1:29.3 | And I feel like I've learned this. |
| 1:30.9 | I learned this the first year of our marriage. |
| 1:33.0 | Brian and I had heard the advice to never go to bed, angry. |
| 1:36.7 | Don't let the sun set on your anger. |
| 1:38.2 | Proverbs says that. |
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