Today we were talking about how to have hard conversations with our spouse.

We all have to have them.

There are things that are not fun to talk about and issues that need to be addressed.

But how do we have hard conversations well for the betterment of our marriage?

Dr. Kim shares some great practical advice and some go-to tips for hard conversations

and some things that we should all also avoid when it comes to having these hard conversations.

Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

So Dr. Kim, what are the different types of hard conversations that couples might need to have?

You know, when I was thinking about this, I think for individual couples, there could be a lot of topics on there.

Something that Nancy and I might talk about pretty easily, somebody else might think, this is a hard conversation for us to get to. I mean, I think that some of the

things that I see that couples struggle to talk about without somebody getting mad or upset or that

kind of thing. I think money is still one of those things, especially if you're struggling

financially or you're just barely making ends meet or you're not making ends meet.

So I think that can be a tough conversation because it's easy to get blaming each other in that kind of situation.

I think one that I've seen lately and I think it's priorities is what I would say.

And people over-scheduling, overdoing things, thinking all they're doing is good, and one spouse

feeling left out, or there's not enough time for me, it's not enough time for our family.

How do I do this? Because my spouse is not going off and doing horrible kinds. If it's a guy,

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