Ways To Deepen Your Emotional Intimacy | Ep. 494
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
One thing we've been hearing a lot from couples is that they don't feel close to each other or that their relationship feels like it's missing some depth. Today we're taking some time to talk about emotional intimacy and give you ideas of practical ways to deepen the emotional intimacy in your marriage.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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- The Self Check In Guide is a great way to grow in self-awareness.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.6 | One thing we've been hearing a lot from couples is that they don't feel close to each other |
| 0:33.1 | or that their relationship feels like it's missing some depth. So today we want to take some |
| 0:38.0 | time to talk about emotional intimacy and give you ideas of ways to deepen the emotional |
| 0:43.3 | intimacy in your marriage. If you're new to the show, we drop a new episode every Tuesday and |
| 0:48.0 | on the last Tuesday of every month is a special guest interview. Go ahead and hit subscribe |
| 0:52.4 | in whatever podcast app you're listening so that you |
| 0:54.6 | can join us each and every week. So Dr. Kim, are you ready to hear a confession? Yes. |
| 1:00.3 | So I pick these topics, you know, and like started preparing for them. I pick the topics out. |
| 1:04.2 | And as I'm preparing for them, I instantly regretted picking this topic. And next week's topic, |
| 1:09.9 | we're going to be talking about spiritual intimacy. |
| 1:11.8 | And I regret both of them because total transparency, Dylan and I are not great at emotional |
| 1:16.5 | intimacy or spiritual intimacy. It's not that we're totally disconnected by any means. |
| 1:22.1 | We just don't prioritize us well. So we're like not, like this is not our strong point. So that being said, any advice |
| 1:30.3 | I give to you guys today, I will also be preaching to myself. So you're not alone if you're a |
| 1:36.1 | listener. So yeah. And I think it's, you know, I think a lot of us struggle with it. At times, |
| 1:42.1 | I think everybody does in marriage. And then sometimes you just, |
| 1:44.7 | and I think it's kind of what you said, if you don't make it a priority. And that's what, |
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