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.

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

Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage

and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.

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 there's 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

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