Why It's Important to Be Known | Ep. 268
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Do you know your spouse? Do they know you? Dr. Kim shares a lot about the concept of being a student of your spouse. This month we are going to be focusing on what that means and how we can do that well in marriage.
In this episode Dr. Kim & Christina talk specifically about why it's important to be known.
Tune in to learn more about how to be a student of your spouse!
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES
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" I want to be known. I want someone to know everything about me. I want someone that I can totally be transparent with. I want to them to know that and for me to know they are not going to walk out the door." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"God made us to have relationships to start with." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"If our spouse does not really know us, I think this can cause a lot of conflict, a lot of misunderstanding, and mistrust." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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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 have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. This month of awesome marriage, we're talking about something that Dr. Kim |
| 0:28.0 | shares a lot about the concept of being a student of your spouse. Today we're going to be talking |
| 0:32.6 | specifically about why it's important to be known. To kick off this series, Dr. Kim, what do you mean when you say |
| 0:38.9 | be a student of your spouse? I think it's something we do so well when we're dating to be a student, |
| 0:44.1 | you know, we're finding out. And you know, I think most people enter marriage thinking we're so much |
| 0:47.5 | alike. And then you get into marriage and you think, oh, we're really different in so many |
| 0:51.1 | ways. And so sometimes that pushes us away. But what I think God wants to do is for that to push you together with your spouse. And so being a student in your |
| 0:58.5 | spouse, what I mean by that is just continuing to learn about your spouse. There's so much all |
| 1:03.0 | the years before you knew your spouse, knowing what their life was like, family of origin, |
| 1:07.5 | how all of that kind of stuff affected them. And then what's going in their |
| 1:11.2 | life now and just learning what they like, what they don't like, what makes them excited, |
| 1:17.1 | what doesn't make them excited, what they, you know, all those kind of things. There's so much, |
| 1:20.6 | you know, I've said this before. I don't think you can learn everything you can about your spouse |
| 1:24.4 | in a lifetime. I just think God made us so maybe complex, but in a good way. |
| 1:29.9 | We're always learning, growing and kind of stuff. And, you know, Nancy and I've just grown and |
| 1:33.8 | grown and grown together. And thank goodness, we have made that a priority to know each other |
| 1:37.9 | and learn about each other. Now, were there seasons where we kind of backed off of that or |
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