Top 10 Marriage Mistakes: Mistake #3 | Ep. 409

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dr. Kim and Christina talk about the #3 marriage mistake Dr. Kim sees in marriages, which is little or no physical intimacy.

Can you think of the last time you touched your spouse? How often do the two of you physically touch? How much of that touching means something and provokes intimacy?

Do you feel more like roommates than lovers? Than this episode should prove useful to your marriage! If you aren't facing this issue now, it may come in the future. So we pray you glean some wisdom and encouragement from this episode.

Dr. Kim gives some practical tips and insight into this issue that so many of us face in our marriage.

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

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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES

"Physical intimacy is not always sexual." - Christina Dodson
"God designed sex to not only help us procreate but also for enjoyment." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"You have to define what a 'normal' amount of times to have sex looks like for you in your marriage. I would encourage that you be intimate at least once a week." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"Tender touch has to be non sexual sometimes for us ladies to feel loved." - Christina Dodson
"Having non sexual touching in your marriage actually makes your sex life better." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"There is a spiritual aspect to sex that we have as Christians. Don't feel weird about connecting God to sex, He's the one who invented it; he's not a prude!" - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"When you're single the Devil tries to keep you in the bed, when you're married the Devil tries to keep you out of the bed." - Christina Dodson
"Having a good sex life in marriage is one way to affair-proof your marriage." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"Your spouse does not define you, God does." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
"Most of the time it's the husband's initiating sex so I encourage wives to initiate sex every now and then, it will mean a lot to your husband." - Dr. Kim Kimberling

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today we are talking about the number three marriage mistake that Dr. Kim sees in marriages,
0:11.4	which is little to no physical intimacy. Can you think of the last time you touched your spouse?
0:17.4	How often do the two of you physically touch? How much of that touching means something
0:21.6	that provokes intimacy or sexual intercourse? Do you feel more like roommates than lovers?
0:26.6	Then this episode should prove useful to your marriage. If you aren't facing this issue now,
0:30.9	it may come in the future. So we pray you glean wisdom and encouragement from this episode.
0:35.7	In this episode, we talk about some really fun things,
0:37.7	and you know Dr. Kim brings up his very favorite passage in scripture. Stay tuned for that.
0:43.1	Dr. Kim also gives some really practical tips and insight into this issue that so many of us
0:47.9	face in our marriage. So please enjoy this episode, and we pray it is helpful to you and your marriage.
0:54.3	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage
0:58.5	and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.
1:02.3	I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.
1:04.4	On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.
1:06.9	Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.
1:12.2	His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. So Dr. Kim, what do you mean by physical intimacy?
1:27.0	Most of the people, when you say that, I think of the sexual relationship, I think it goes
1:30.3	to any kind of physical touch and it doesn't have to be sexual, but I think just the touching,
1:36.3	hugging, holding someone, back massage, all those kind of things.
1:40.3	I think in the sexual part, it's the part that a lot of times we get where we rush through
1:44.7	and that's foreplay of it. And that's definitely physical intimacy and certainly the sexual relationship.
1:49.4	Anything that has to do with that would be physical intimacy. Yeah, that's good. The way I kind of
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