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Awesome Marriage Podcast

How to Choose Your Battles Well | Ep. 645

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

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

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

How well do you choose your battles? If you struggle with recurring conflict in marriage, you might need to work on choosing your battles. On the other hand, if you’re feeling resentment but you’re not sure how to address it… you might need to work on choosing your battles. Today Dr. Kim is going to help you learn how to choose your battles well.

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

 

Episode highlights include: 

  • Knowing when to stand your ground vs. when to let go

  • The underlying message in your recurring marriage issues

  • How to balance love and grace with speaking the truth 

  • The path to build trust for open and honest feedback

 

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

 

Couples Conversation Guide: 

Main takeaway: Some things are not worth arguing over! You can reduce the tension in your marriage by learning to choose your battles better. 

 

Questions to Discuss: 

  1. What situations tend to end in recurring arguments in your marriage? 

  2. Are any of those battles you can let go of, instead of fighting? 

  3.  Is there any resentment you need to let go of today? 

 

QUOTES 

  • Instead of being critical, learn to work together. - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

  • Stay faithful to agreements you’ve made. The things you agreed on affect one another. - Lindsay Few 

  • It doesn’t have to be a battle. - Lindsay Few 

  • Getting defensive just never works. - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:  

  1. What situations tend to end in recurring arguments in your marriage? 

  2. Are any of those battles you can let go of, instead of fighting? 

  3.  Is there any resentment you need to let go of today? 

 

QUOTES 

  • Instead of being critical, learn to work together. - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

  • Stay faithful to agreements you’ve made. The things you agreed on affect one another. - Lindsay Few 

  • It doesn’t have to be a battle. - Lindsay Few 

  • Getting defensive just never works. - Dr. Kim Kimberling 

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:  

 

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. His passion is to help you

0:23.4

strengthen your most intimate relationship. Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. We are so

0:30.1

glad to be with you today. And today we're talking about choosing your battles. How well do

0:35.5

do with choosing your battles in marriage? If you're struggling with recurring conflict, you might need to work on choosing your battles. How well do you do with choosing your battles in marriage? If you're struggling with

0:38.6

recurring conflict, you might need to work on choosing your battles. On the other hand, if you're

0:42.6

feeling resentful and you're not sure how to address it, well, you might need to work on choosing

0:46.7

your battles. So today, Dr. Kim is going to help you learn how to choose your battles well in marriage.

0:52.6

Stay tuned all the way to the end of today's episode to hear

0:54.9

about an awesome freebie we have to help you with conflict. But before we dive into the topic,

0:59.7

I want to make sure you know that we do have a couple's conversation guide for every podcast

1:04.1

episode. And this is just to make discussing and applying what you hear super easy for you and

1:09.4

your spouse. And the kind of marriage hack is if you

1:12.4

want to discuss it with your spouse, you just forward in the conversation guide and get the

1:16.4

conversation going. It's pretty easy to do. So you can get this guide at awesomemarriage.com

1:21.4

slash podcast or you can get it delivered straight to you each week in Dr. Kim's marriage multiplier email.

1:28.3

So if you're not already signed up for that, I highly encourage you to take advantage of his

1:32.3

quick weekly email with simple steps to invest in your marriage.

1:37.3

You can find the link to sign up in today's show notes or at awesomemarriage.com.

1:41.9

So Dr. Kim, let's dive in.

1:47.8

What struggles do you see couples facing when it comes to choosing their battles in marriage? Yeah, I think every couple's gone through this

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