Top 10 Marriage Mistakes: Mistake #5 | Ep. 407
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk about the #5 marriage mistake Dr. Kim sees in marriages, which is not walking the talk.
In marriage it's so important to do what you say you're going to do and to keep your promises to your spouse. In this episode Dr. Kim shares how to deal with a spouse that you can't trust to do what they say as well as gives practical advice on how to grow in keeping our promises.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
- "A lot of the biggest issues I see in marriages today develop from a lack of trust or trust having been broken." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
- "We are more in sync with each other and with God when we completely trust our spouse." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
- "You can't have an awesome marriage without trust." - Christina Dodson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | today we were talking about the number five marriage mistake that Dr. Kim sees in marriages, |
| 0:11.4 | which is not walking the talk. In marriage, it is so important to do what you say you're going |
| 0:16.7 | to do and to keep your promises to your spouse. In this episode, Dr. Kim shares how to deal with a |
| 0:21.3 | spouse that you can't trust to do what they say they will, as well as give some practical |
| 0:25.8 | advice on how to grow in keeping our promises. We pray this episode is helpful to you and your |
| 0:30.8 | marriage. Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about |
| 0:36.9 | marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:41.0 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:43.0 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling. |
| 0:45.6 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:49.6 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:52.8 | Thank you. is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 1:04.2 | So Dr. Kim, what does it mean to not walk the talk? |
| 1:07.7 | And we think about your spouse and you tell your spouse you love them and you tell the spouse you're committed to them, you tell your spouse you want to serve them, all those things that we say, and then we don't do it because we are lazy or get selfies or just |
| 1:16.4 | not do what we say. Then we're not walking to talk. I mean, you know, when I, it's kind of like we talk |
| 1:21.9 | about communication that 7% of what you say is just your actual words, and the other 93% is your body language and your tone of voice. |
| 1:29.8 | And so, you know, I can say, Nancy, I love you, but if I'm screaming at her or throwing things at her, you know, she's not going to believe that. |
| 1:37.7 | So the same thing. If you say you love someone, you're committed to them and then you're never around or you're mean to them or you're selfish all the time you're |
| 1:45.5 | not falling through with what you said you're going to do yeah that's good that is so good i think it's |
| 1:50.7 | it's easy to say it's hard to do and it's the doing that makes you dependable it's the doing that makes |
| 1:57.2 | you trustworthy and those things matter so much in a marriage and it's so biblical too so |
| 2:02.0 | when I think of not walking the talk I think of yeah dependability trustworthiness and I think of |
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