What Do I Do When I'm Not Attracted To My Spouse | Ep. 444

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Is it okay to not be attracted to your spouse? Why would someone stop being attracted to their spouse? Today Dr. Kim and Christina talk all about what to do when you're not attracted to your spouse. We have received these questions quite a bit and want to take some time to address them. Dr. Kim and Christina tackle these questions and give you practical advice for what to do if you are facing a lack of attraction in your marriage.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and
0:06.8	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.
0:31.6	So today we're going to be talking all about what to do when you are not attracted to your spouse.
0:36.6	We've been asked this question several
0:38.5	times, so we wanted to take some time to tackle it today. Dr. Kim, is it normal to not be
0:44.1	attracted to your spouse? Does this happen to every couple at some point? And definitely it happens.
0:51.0	I mean, I've worked with too many people too long to know. This has happened to every
0:54.3	couple. I don't know. Maybe not, but I think it happens over time to just about everybody
0:59.4	because I think it has a lot more to do with the state of the relationship than it does to the
1:05.7	outward appearance. And so, you know, there's been times that I know I haven't been very attractive to Nancy. And honestly,
1:12.6	a couple of times she hadn't been very attractive to me because of the state of a relationship.
1:16.4	I mean, I just didn't, she didn't like me very much right then. And so when it didn't have anything to do with,
1:21.6	I mean, it's not like all of a sudden she went and did something to make herself look horrible.
1:26.6	You know, no, it was just because of the state of relationship.
1:30.1	And so I've kept, and another thing that's been interesting, I've counseled couples that
1:34.0	I would say by the world standards, they were like they could have walked off a magazine.
1:39.2	I mean, just really very attractive.
1:40.8	But because of the state of the relationship, there was no attraction between
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