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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Tips to Master Work - Life Balance in Your Marriage In The Home | Ep. 596

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9813 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Work - life balance is not limited to the workplace: It's also the work of running a home, and it's a challenge for most couples to share this load well. Today Dr. Kim is sharing some of his best tips for finding balance in the home. 

The struggle to find work - life balance does not end when you get home in the evening. Taking care of a home and family is a huge portion of our workload that you can't ignore. But you can find ways to handle it well – TOGETHER!

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

 

Episode highlights include:  

  • Tips for spouses who work outside the home 

  • Tips for those who work from home 

  • Tips for stay-at-home parents 

  • Signs you & your spouse need to work toward better balance 

  • The need for boundaries to help with balance; how to work on them together

  • What to do if you get stuck, or if you've tried to address things and it's not working

 

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here

 

QUOTES

  • Resolving conflict doesn't have to be a bad thing. It takes work, but when you talk and listen well, you'll find that most things, you can resolve. - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

  • At the end of your life,  you're not going to look back and say, "I wish I'd looked at my phone a few more times." - Dr. Kim Kimberling  

  • If you get stuck, it's ok to get help.  - Dr. Kim Kimberling

  • The things that matter work themselves out in the very small details of life. - Lindsay Few

  • Maybe you think everyone else is doing it all, so you're trying to do it all. I don't think that's realistic or healthy. - Lindsay Few 

  • It's easy to fall in those traps and not really know that you've even fallen into them. - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

  • We have to make sure we're saying what we mean and what we need instead of just hoping our spouse catches the hint. - Lindsay few 

 

QUESTIONS FOR YOU

  • Is the workload in your home balanced?  

  • Do you have a mentor couple in your life? 

  • Are your boundaries with tech (screentime, phones) working well? 

  • Talk with your spouse and rate how you're doing with work / life balance together, on a scale of 1-10? 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Work life balance is not limited to the workplace. It's also the work of running your home,

0:05.0

and it's really challenging for most couples to share this workload well. Today, Dr. Kim is sharing

0:10.6

some of his best tips to help you and your spouse find work life balance in your home.

0:17.1

Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

0:25.8

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.

0:29.3

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.

0:32.9

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

0:39.3

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. So the struggle to find a work-life balance does

0:45.9

not end when you or your spouse get home from work. Taking care of your home and family is a huge

0:50.8

portion of the workload that you cannot ignore. But you can find ways to handle it well

0:56.1

together. So Dr. Kim, what are some signs a couple is not doing work-life balance well at home?

1:03.3

Well, I think one of the obvious ones if you're fighting more, more arguments, more conflict,

1:09.8

you know, and especially if you're arguing some because, you know,

1:12.6

how's our time allocated with work and home or, you know, are we getting a balance there?

1:17.9

We're not having the quality time that we used to have.

1:20.6

Those kind of things that we talk about all the time that connect a couple.

1:25.3

And so when you're not doing those and you're not connected,

1:28.2

you're going to fight more. And so I think one of the ways is just to look, are we fighting more?

1:34.0

And why are we fighting? You know, sometimes, you know, when Nancy and I would have been in those

1:38.6

situations next day, I probably couldn't tell you what we fought about, but we were just

1:43.0

irritable and we just weren't

1:44.2

connected.

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