Top 8 Marriage Issues in 2019: #7 | Ep. 377

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For the next few weeks on the podcast we are doing a series on the Top 8 Marriage Issues in 2019. These 8 issues are the top 8 issues that Dr. Kim has seen this year with marriages. We will be breaking them down starting with #8 and working our way towards the #1 marriage issue.

In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk about the 7th biggest issue in marriages this year which is: boredom.

With time, some spouse's become bored with their relationship. Boredom in marriage is a dangerous thing to dwell on and can easily slip into even bigger issues.

It also doesn't help that our culture is telling us that monogamy and marriage is boring. But marriage does NOT have to be boring. There are real, practical things you can do to keep boredom at bay and protect your marriage from boredom.

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES

"Connection = Zero Boredom in marriage." - Dr. Kim
"You don't have to be screaming and yelling and throwing things at each other for you to go to marriage counseling." - Christina
"Boredom can happen if we're not intentional about giving to our marriage as much as we're taking from it." - Dr. Kim
"Be intentional about having fun with each other, even when life gets busy; remember there's something that got you to the altar in the first place." - Dr. Kim
"Find creative questions to ask each other." - Christina
"There are going to be times you get bored in your marriage, it's about recognizing when that's happening and committing to reconnecting so you don't stay bored and disconnected." - Dr. Kim

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0:00.0	For the next few weeks on the podcast, we were doing a series on the top eight marriage issues in 2019.
0:09.4	These eight issues are the top eight issues that Dr. Kim has seen this year with marriages.
0:14.1	We will be breaking them down, starting with number eight, and working our way towards the number one issue in marriages in 2019. Today we'll be talking about
0:22.4	the seventh biggest issue in marriages this year, which is boredom. With time, some spouses
0:27.4	become bored with their relationship. Bortem in marriage is a dangerous thing to dwell on and can
0:32.2	easily slip into even bigger issues. It also doesn't help that our culture is telling us that
0:37.4	monogamy and marriage
0:38.4	is boring, but marriage does not have to be boring. There are real practical things that you can do
0:44.4	to keep boredom at bay and to protect your marriage from boredom. Tune in to hear what we have to
0:49.1	say about preventing and dealing with this issue in marriage. Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage
0:57.5	and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.
1:01.9	I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.
1:05.1	On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.
1:07.8	Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. His passion
1:12.6	is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.
1:18.5	So what does boredom in marriage look like, Dr. Kim?
1:22.6	I think it's when we begin to look for something else. Or maybe we're not letting our marriage
1:29.3	be what God wants it to be in our lives. Maybe we're looking for other things to fill us that we
1:34.4	thought, well, marriage was going to do this and it's not. I'm bored with that. So I go to
1:37.5	something else. So I think you can take on some really negative things. What I've said forever,
1:44.1	and I think you have to work at it, but I think,
1:46.4	I don't think you can learn enough of everything about the other person in a lifetime,
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