4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Your marriage needs trust in order to be healthy. Without it, your connection with your spouse will fade, and you’ll experience more conflict and tension, and less of the closeness and intimacy marriage is meant to have. Don’t stay stuck like this! Turn things around by closing the trust gaps between you and your spouse and make your marriage a safe refuge for both of you.
Episode highlights include:
Areas where you might not realize you lack trust
How to address it effectively with your spouse - without blaming
How to have grace in the rebuilding process
Tips to building financial trust
Practical tips to become more trustworthy with completing tasks
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
QUOTES
“Without trust in a marriage, the marriage just crumbles.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling
“We don’t realize how valuable trust is until it’s broken.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling
“Trust can be unique to the person and the situation.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling
“We have to own what’s driving our trust-breaking behavior.” - Lindsay Few
“The budget isn’t a prison, it’s a plan. But sometimes it will be uncomfortable.” - Lindsay Few
“The sooner you go to counseling, the sooner you’ll resolve your issues.” - Lindsay Few
“If you get stuck, you don’t have to stay stuck.” - Lindsay Few
“Your spouse may make some mistakes, so look for Jesus in your spouse.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling
“I felt like he should trust me … but my action was not giving him anything to trust.” - Lindsay Few
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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. |
0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
0:28.7 | Trust is absolutely essential for a marriage to survive and to thrive over the long haul. |
0:33.0 | And today we're going to give you ways to build and restore it. |
0:36.1 | Before we do, I want to make sure you know |
0:37.6 | about our couples conversation guide. This is really the best way to make the awesome marriage |
0:42.3 | podcast practical and actionable in your marriage. We send this out every single week in a weekly |
0:47.3 | podcast email to give you and your spouse some great discussion questions to help make this |
0:52.6 | content relevant and real in your marriage. |
0:55.9 | So to sign up for that, make sure you see the link in today's show notes or by going to |
1:00.1 | awesomemarriage.com slash podcast. We've got everything you need there to get sign up for the email |
1:04.7 | and get this couple of conversation guide in your hand each week. So Dr. Kim, let's talk about |
1:10.6 | different types of trust because some trust |
1:14.2 | breakdowns are pretty obvious, but are there some ways couples may lack trust that are a little |
1:18.7 | bit harder to see? I think there are. And it's interesting when I was thinking about this question |
1:22.7 | and just working people in counseling over the years, that their trust can be unique to the individual situation. |
1:29.9 | And in other words, if someone has had maybe some trauma or something in their past, |
1:34.9 | and they share that with their spouse, and they trust that with their spouse. |
1:38.2 | And so then that spouse uses that to maybe control or manipulate later on. |
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