6 Communication Tips for Tough Times | Ep. 618
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If your marriage communication is a struggle, you are NOT alone. So many marriage issues come back to communication, and if your communication is awesome, your marriage will be too! But most of us will have some trouble with communicating well with our spouse, and it’s the biggest issue couples ask us for help with. That’s why today we’re equipping you with 6 tips to communicate well in the good times and in the bad.
We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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How to talk so your spouse can listen
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Use the “title page” trick to help your spouse listen to you
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Dr. Kim’s 6 tips to communicate well
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How to find a good counselor if you need one
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How to restart the openness & honesty in your marriage
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
QUOTES
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“I think what happens for guys is that when we’re dating our future wife, we up our game.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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“It’s hard for me to put my thoughts and feelings into succinct words.I can easily ramble on… but that doesn’t make for good communication.” - Lindsay Few
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“The bottom line is you want them to hear what you’re saying, so how do you best communicate in a way that they’re going to hear it?” - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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“If you’re going through a hard time, call it that. Work together to reclaim your time and energy.” - Lindsay Few
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“We can’t give away every piece of our heart, mind, time and energy to things that drain the life out of us.” - Lindsay Few
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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Get the Couple’s Conversation Guide for each episode by signing up here!
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The Sex Talk course equips you to teach your kids about sex in a biblical, God-honoring way
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Dr. Kim’s blogs on questions to ask your counselor:
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Our FREE Weekly Check In Guide helps with regular communication
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Making Your Marriage a Refuge with Special Guest Gary Thomas Ep. 530
Transcript
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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 |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. So many couples are struggling to communicate well. |
| 0:32.0 | And if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you've heard us say that communication is |
| 0:36.3 | actually the number one issue that couples |
| 0:38.5 | ask for help with. Today, Dr. Kim will share six actionable tips to help you communicate well |
| 0:44.5 | through the tough times in marriage. Before we get into today's topic, I want to make sure you |
| 0:49.6 | know about a really helpful resource we have for you. We create a couple's conversation guide for every |
| 0:55.4 | single episode of the podcast because at awesome marriage, we're all about making things practical |
| 1:00.2 | for you. We don't want to just give you information. We want to help you take action on it so that |
| 1:04.7 | your marriage can grow and thrive. So our couple's conversation guide is available to all of our |
| 1:10.7 | podcast email subscribers. |
| 1:12.6 | If you are not a subscriber, make sure you subscribe today at the link in our show notes |
| 1:17.1 | or by going to awesomemarriage.com, backslash podcast. |
| 1:22.8 | So as we're getting into this conversation topic, communication is not usually a problem when we're |
| 1:28.9 | dating or early in marriage. So Dr. Kim, what is the deal? What happens? |
| 1:33.8 | I think it, well, one, it's a problem for every couple I see in counseling. I think it's a couple, |
| 1:39.1 | I don't know a couple that I've ever talked to that said our communication has been great |
| 1:43.7 | from day one. |
| 1:45.2 | And I think goes back, I mean, in general, I think women are better communicators than men. |
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