Worth Repeating: Checking In So You Don't Check Out - How To Prevent Conflict

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Conflict is inevitable, but a lot of it could actually be avoided. In this episode, Dr. Kim and Christina unpack simple ways to be more connected with your spouse, ways to prevent unnecessary conflict, and how to know if you're "checked out." This one originally aired a while back, but we're sharing this episode again because so many marriages could be less tense and more enjoyable simply by preventing some of the conflict! If you're like me, you can always use reminders of easy ways to make your marriage better - so it's definitely worth repeating!

We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.

RESOURCES

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This month's 30-Day Communication Challenge will help get the communication in your marriage on a healthy track. This is an awesome way to check in, prevent conflict and know your spouse better!
Dr. Kim highly suggests a weekly check in with your spouse as a way to prevent conflict. Our Weekly Marriage Check in Guide makes this super easy to do and it's yours for a donation of any amount.
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0:00.0	we wanted to share this episode about how to prevent conflict and marriage with you again
0:10.0	because it's definitely worth repeating if you are new to the podcast you probably have not had a chance
0:15.5	to listen to this one and even if you have been around for quite some time and have listened to it
0:19.6	in the past this is one of those that we all really need reminded about.
0:23.5	Being intentional with each other in this way is going to bless your marriage.
0:27.2	Striving to prevent unnecessary conflict is going to bring your marriage more peace and more joy.
0:32.5	Also, we want to give a little something away as a gift to our loyal listeners.
0:36.6	If you leave a rating and review of
0:38.2	the podcast wherever you listen, we will give you our couples Unity Building Journal for free.
0:43.8	Simply leave a rating review of the podcast wherever you listen and then screenshot that and email it
0:48.9	to info at awesomemarriage.com with Unity Building as the subject title of that email and we'll email you
0:55.2	that great resource for free. In our couple's unity building journal, there is a whole section
1:00.0	on conflict and another whole section on friendship. So this will be a really awesome tool to help
1:05.1	you practically put some of this great info from this episode into practice so that you can really
1:09.9	grow in this area.
1:16.7	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage
1:21.2	and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. I am your co-host Christina Dodson.
1:26.9	On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.
1:29.7	Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help
1:34.5	you strengthen your most intimate relationship. Today, we're going to be focusing on how to prevent conflict in marriage before it even starts.
1:47.8	Conflict is inevitable, so we aren't saying that you can have a conflict-free marriage,
1:52.1	but there are definitely some ways that you can have less conflict in marriage.
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