Unpack the Baggage In Your Marriage: What Are You Carrying? | Ep. 555
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When we carry parts of our past with us, they still affect us today. You may know there is something going on, but not know what it is. You may sense your spouse has something they are carrying or you might be affected by unresolved conflict in your shared past. Today Dr. Kim shares how these things shape our marriage relationships and what we can do about them.
Episode highlights include:
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Ever been picked last at recess? Yeah, us too. But do things like that matter in our marriages?
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Why aren't we dealing with this stuff already?
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What happens if we don't deal with our past hurt
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Is it okay to talk about our spouse's baggage if they don't bring it up?
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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RESOURCES
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This is the FB Live video with Chris and Jamie Bailey that we referred to dealing with Emotional Rationalization
- As promised! Here are some Scriptures that speak to the things we addressed today:
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. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.6 | Well, today we are beginning our series on unpacking the baggage in your marriage by going |
| 0:33.6 | under the surface. |
| 0:34.8 | We're going to talk about maybe you have the same fights over and over, |
| 0:38.3 | maybe you find yourself overreacting sometimes, or maybe things just escalate quickly between |
| 0:43.1 | you and your spouse and you don't know why. These might be signs that some underlying issues |
| 0:47.5 | are affecting your marriage. So listen in as we talk about how to deal with baggage that's hindering |
| 0:52.5 | your marriage. So Dr. Kim, |
| 0:55.6 | what types of baggage might be affecting couples, whether it's from their own past or from their |
| 1:00.1 | shared past together? Yeah, let's define baggage too. I think the baggage in a relationship happens |
| 1:05.9 | when somebody's still experiencing the residual effects of the past situation. |
| 1:11.1 | In other words, it's happened back here, maybe I'm a childhood, wherever, but it's |
| 1:14.6 | affecting me now and it's affecting this relationship. |
| 1:17.6 | So certainly we have it from childhood, childhood baggage. |
| 1:20.9 | And it can be, you know, depending on who you, what age those things happen to you, how you |
| 1:25.2 | interpret them, all those kind of things. |
| 1:26.7 | So you can, those things can last for people a long time. And I've talked to you, how you interpret them, all those kind of things. So you can, |
| 1:32.5 | those things can last for people a long time. And I've talked to people, you know, like, I remember one guy he was in his mid-40s and something had happened with his eight years old, eight years |
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