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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Healthy Tech Habits For A Healthy Marriage with Arlene Pellicane | Ep. 636

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Do your habits online support your marriage? Or damage it? 

 

Fewer couples are getting married than ever. Tech is hitting marriages hard today. Yet research shows that marriage can provide a huge boost to personal happiness. Today’s guest Arlene Pellicane has written several books on how technology is impacting relationships, and today she shares tech habits that will help you and your marriage to thrive.    

 

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

 

Episode highlights include:  

  • The 1 habit that leads to a 99% marriage success rate 

  • Simple to streamline your tech habits for more connection 

  • Why today’s tech affects relationships differently than before 

  • Research shows how marriage can impact happiness  

  • Parenting tips to break unhealthy tech habits and get your child back  

 

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here! 

 

QUOTES 

  • “If we seek God and His guidance, He’s always going to have an answer.” Dr. Kim Kimberling 

  • “Is technology bringing you closer together? Or causing you to grow farther apart.”  - Arlene Pellicane 

  • “We're missing all these little times to connect. That’s why you feel disconnected.”  - Arlene Pellicane 

  • “You have to prepare to be unpopular, because as a parent, it’s your job to protect your child.”  - Arlene Pellicane 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 

  • If you need help with family tech habits, DO NOT miss Arlene’s books on the topic. 

  • National Marriage Week is each February 7-14th – and their great marriage building resources are available all year long! Learn more and support the mission on the WEB, FACEBOOK, X (TWITTER) or INSTAGRAM !

  • Learn more about what boundaries can do for your marriage in Dr. Kim’s free Building Healthy Boundaries Webinar. Learn more here! 

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. 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.

0:21.8

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

0:27.8

Arlene, welcome to the Lossmarry podcast.

0:30.3

Thank you so much for agreeing to meet with me today and have a good conversation and so excited to have you and just so impressed and excited about all the

0:38.9

stuff that you do and how much you help people. Oh, that's very kind of you. It's an honor for me

0:43.7

to be with you, Dr. Kim. Thanks so much for having me. Well, I know we're going to have some fun. So let's

0:48.3

talk about, let's just kind of jump into the stats about the state of marriage today in our culture and how it is affecting that

0:56.5

younger generation.

0:57.8

Yeah.

0:58.1

You know, I was very surprised to read some statistics.

1:01.1

We kind of know that, okay, people are not getting as married as much as they used to or,

1:05.5

you know, people don't think of marriage as highly or as, you know, like an important milestone

1:09.9

as they used to.

1:12.5

So 81% of the child generation got married. 61% of the boomers got married. 53% of the Gen Xers,

1:20.6

that's my generation got married. And so you can see the numbers are going down, right?

1:24.5

But 44% of the millennials. So you compare 81% of the silent generation to 44% of

1:32.4

millennial. So you see that, wow, like with every generation, less of us are getting married.

1:39.0

And I think many times people think, well, if I get married, what's the point? Because it's probably

1:43.7

going to end in divorce anyway. So maybe I should married, what's the point? Because it's probably going to end

1:44.2

in divorce anyway. So maybe I should save myself. But the divorce rate is actually down. So compared

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