Emotional Intimacy Do's and Don'ts | Ep. 649
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
How is the emotional intimacy in your marriage? Do you feel safe telling your spouse anything? Do you feel loved, heard, and understood?
Marriage is meant to be a refuge…a place where you each feel safe sharing deep personal feelings and confident you will be graciously received by your spouse. The problem is that many of us don’t talk about or even understand our own emotions. And if we can’t properly process our emotions, it will be very hard to build true emotional closeness in marriage.
Tune in today to learn the Do’s and Don’t of emotional intimacy. We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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Surprising behaviors that may shut our spouses down emotionally
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What wives tend to get wrong about emotional intimacy
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What husbands often get wrong about emotional intimacy
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What we miss out on when emotional intimacy is missing in marriage
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
Couples Conversation Guide:
Main takeaway: Emotional intimacy is being able to share your thoughts, feelings, hopes, fears, and more with your spouse and be loved and accepted. It is a building block of great connection in marriage.
Questions to Discuss:
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How safe do you feel sharing anything you need to with your spouse?
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What could you do to better accept your spouse as they are?
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What helps you feel emotionally close and connected?
QUOTES
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Wives may experience more of the feeling of the lack of emotional intimacy. - Lindsay Few
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I promise you, after 54 years of marriage, that your spouse cannot read your mind. - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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A lot of times we think our spouse thinks like we think. Dr. Kim Kimberling
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Our assumptions really get us in trouble. - Lindsay Few
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Instead of thinking your spouse is a terrible person, realize they’re just different. They don’t see things the same way you do. - Lindsay Few
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God didn’t give feelings and emotions to women that He didn’t give to men. He gave us the same feelings and emotions. It changes your life when you get in touch with that. - Dr. Kim Kimberling
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We’re all emotional. We’re just not all in touch with them. - Lindsay Few
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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Take the 5 Days to Deeper Emotional Intimacy challenge to learn practical steps to growing emotional intimacy with your spouse.
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FREE Awesome Marriage Feelings Chart Printable
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FREE Married couples card game Heart-to-Heart is a game designed to deepen emotional intimacy and connection between you two.
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. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. 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. Well, welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm |
| 0:30.5 | Lindsay Few, your podcast co-host and in the studio with me today is Dr. Kim, the host of the awesome |
| 0:35.3 | marriage podcast. And today we're talking all about |
| 0:37.9 | do's and don'ts for building emotional intimacy in your marriage. This is a topic that we have |
| 0:43.6 | heard a lot of questions about. People just don't know how to build it, how to retain it, |
| 0:47.5 | and what's not working. So today we're going to unpack that. And we also want to help you |
| 0:52.4 | out by offering you an awesome free resource we've |
| 0:55.0 | created to help with this. Our goal, we are always working to create products that make this |
| 1:00.8 | information practical for you and your spouse to apply. So if you stick with us through the end, |
| 1:05.9 | I'll tell you all about that. But for now, Dr. Kim, let's talk about emotional intimacy. Will you start |
| 1:10.7 | by just defining that term for us? Sure. I, let's talk about emotional intimacy. Will you start by just |
| 1:11.1 | defining that term for us? Sure. I think there's a lot of, you know, technical things, but I really |
| 1:16.2 | see emotional intimacy, especially when we're talking about a marriage relationship. It's an ability |
| 1:21.6 | for where you can share your feelings, your thoughts, your vulnerabilities with your spouse |
| 1:27.2 | in an atmosphere |
| 1:28.4 | where there's trust and there's understanding, there's acceptance. |
| 1:31.7 | You don't feel like you're going to be judged that you feel their support. |
| 1:35.2 | You feel their empathy, that it's really a safe place to connect and grow mostly in your |
| 1:41.9 | marriage relationship. |
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