Worth Repeating: How to Make Romance Realistic in Your Marriage
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How's the romance in your marriage? How does it compare to when you were dating? (… and does that matter?)
Romance can fall by the wayside in marriage because it seems like an "extra" that you'll get around to when you have extra time or money, or if you feel inspired to make a grand gesture.
But today Dr. Kim shares several reasons NOT to let that be the case in your marriage. Listen to learn why you need to bring the romance back and HOW to realistically make that happen.
We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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Dr. Kim shares several specific ways romance benefits a marriage
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What does romance look like for men vs. for women?
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What to do if you're just not feeling it
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Whose job is it to make sure the romance is good?
Quotes from This Episode:
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"Most people would say at some point it was there. So how do you get it back?" - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"We kind of quit doing romantic things because we're not feeling it. Sometimes we have to go ahead and do them, so that we feel it again." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"Marriage is a lot better when you've got romance in it." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"I think we'd like it to come naturally, like it does in the movies." - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"It's ok to have the conversation. We have to get past the mindset of, 'If you really loved me, you'd know.'" - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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"Romance is a great way to show your spouse, I see you, I appreciate you, and I care about what you care about." - Lindsay Few
Questions for You:
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Have you talked about romance with your spouse? If not …
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Ask them: What is sexy to you? What is romantic to you?
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Don't judge their answers!
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Answers may change over time, so check in every now and then.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, one of the things I love is we take a short recording break for the Elsin Marriage |
| 0:04.4 | podcast is sharing some of my very favorite past podcasts with you. If you missed it, it's your |
| 0:09.8 | second chance. And if you didn't miss it, a chance to hear a great podcast again. In this episode, |
| 0:15.6 | Lindsay, you and I talk about a really important topic, how to make romance in your marriage |
| 0:20.2 | realistic. Enjoy. You don't stop |
| 0:24.1 | romance during those times. You just say, how do we navigate that well? How do we put in the |
| 0:29.1 | effort? How are we intentional? And I think some couples get that and do it well. And I think |
| 0:35.5 | others struggle. And I think there's probably a lot of couples struggling right now. |
| 0:38.8 | I mean, they may still have sex. |
| 0:40.7 | But the romance part of it that kind of builds on that intimacy that builds that closest in a really special way, sometimes that's not there. |
| 0:50.6 | And it's it's just being, okay, how do we we make how do we get this back is romance realistic |
| 1:01.0 | in the middle of day-to-day life today dr kim's going to share his thoughts and teach you tips |
| 1:06.3 | to bring back that spark of romance in your relationship. |
| 1:10.9 | Would you say there's romance in your marriage or has that flame kind of fizzled? |
| 1:14.6 | Well, Dr. Kim's going to be giving insights today to help sort this out. |
| 1:18.3 | And before we jump into this topic, I do want to make sure you know about a resource we have |
| 1:23.0 | available for a limited time. |
| 1:24.8 | It's our sexy bundle for the month of February. We create monthly resources |
| 1:29.4 | every single month to help couples deal with the common pain points in marriage. And our digital |
| 1:34.6 | resources are always available for instant download with a donation of any amount. And this month, |
| 1:41.3 | we're bundling together four of our best-selling sex resources for just one donation. |
| 1:47.8 | So since awesome marriage is a 501c3 nonprofit, we do everything fully funded through donations. |
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