Wives' Edition: Speaking Life | Ep. 486
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you're anything like us, you've heard your fair share of venting and husband-bashing. And it's all too easy to join in and commiserate! So what does "speaking life" mean for marriage, and why should we be doing it? Today Lindsay joins Christina on the podcast for another "Wives Edition" episode to talk about speaking life into marriages around us.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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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. |
| 0:28.7 | Well, today we are switching things up a little bit for a special edition wives episode. |
| 0:33.6 | Today I'm joined by Lindsay Few, our content editor and podcast producer here at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:39.0 | Lindsay lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is married to her husband, Brian, for the past 18 years. |
| 0:44.2 | Today we're going to be talking about speaking life into the marriages around you. |
| 0:47.8 | Here at Awesome Marriage, we truly believe a world full of awesome marriages can change the world. |
| 0:52.9 | Part of that is because healthy marriages |
| 0:55.0 | are contagious, but in order to spread that contagion, we have to be willing to speak up and speak |
| 1:00.6 | life. So that is what we are going to discuss today. If you're new to the show, we drop an |
| 1:05.2 | episode every Tuesday, and on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special guest interview. |
| 1:10.1 | Be sure to hit subscribe so that you |
| 1:11.6 | can tune in every single week. So, Lindsay, first, let's start out defining something kind of |
| 1:17.4 | important. What does it mean to speak life? I think of encouragement. I think of letting |
| 1:24.5 | the people around you know that you're for them and for their marriage. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, that's good. |
| 1:31.5 | I love that. |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah, it's hard to define, honestly, for me, you did a really good job of that, really |
| 1:36.3 | beautiful job because it's more than just positive words, you know? |
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