Worth Repeating: The Right / Wrong Way to Apologize
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Apologies are necessary. We are all human and sinful, so we should all be apologizing regularly. But there are definitely right and wrong ways to do this, and most of us can certainly grow in doing apologies well. We're on our Awesome Marriage Podcast summer break, and during these weeks off, we are re-sharing some of our favorite past episodes. These are episodes that you might have missed the first time, or that just deserve a re-listen! Today we're re-airing this episode where Dr. Kim and Christina explain why good apologies matter, and help us learn to do this well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.3 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Today we're talking about the right and wrong ways to apologize to your spouse. |
| 0:39.3 | Apologies are necessary. Since we're human and fallen, we should be apologizing regularly. |
| 0:44.3 | Dr. Kim shares some great practical advice on what to do and not to do when it comes to apologizing in marriage. |
| 0:50.3 | And I personally have a list of like 20 different ways not to apologize so I'm |
| 0:54.5 | not sure what that says about me and my marriage but I hope you'll gain some wisdom from |
| 0:59.1 | this episode we pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage dr. Kim why is it |
| 1:04.1 | important to learn how to apologize well basically you're gonna screw up and your spouse |
| 1:10.1 | almost my spouse certainly almost knows always knows it when I screw up. |
| 1:14.7 | So for us, it's to restore the relationship. |
| 1:18.1 | And, you know, it just puts things to own up to what you've done or said. |
| 1:22.9 | And I think even little things. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean, you know, just we really, it took me hard. I think time, long time, just to really figure out how to the value of apologizing. |
| 1:33.7 | Nancy was always the one to apologize first. She just did. And I think I took advantage of it. And until I finally she didn't one time. And I thought, what's wrong with her? And then I realized, okay, you're supposed to apologize, Steve. |
| 1:45.7 | So we do it really easy very quickly now. |
| 1:47.9 | It took time to get that. |
| 1:49.3 | But I think for us, it was it always brought us back together. |
| 1:52.9 | It always helped begin whatever the step was to restore the relationship. |
| 1:57.8 | And, you know, it's the same thing with the relationship with God. |
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