Worth Repeating | Intimacy VS Control - You Can't Have Both | Ep. 625

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

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

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Are you ever a bit too helpful in your marriage? Do you find yourself frustrated with the way your spouse responds to you?

You may be trying to control your spouse by “helping” even if you don’t mean to!

Today Laura Doyle from the Empowered Wife Podcast joins Dr. Kim to teach us some ways to shift our marriage culture - without resorting to control tactics. Tune in to learn how!

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

Episode highlights include:

Empowering ways to shift the culture of your marriage, even if your spouse isn’t on board
“Cheat phrases” to help you shift from controlling tendencies to deeper intimacy
The unexpected lesson of sitting down with your spouse and getting nothing done!

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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.
0:09.6	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.
0:27.3	Welcome to Boss of Marriage podcast today.
0:29.3	I'm excited to welcome Laura Doyle to the podcast.
0:33.1	Laura's a New York Times bestselling author.
0:35.2	Her books are The Sur wife and the empowered wife.
0:38.2	She's a relationship coach who helps women bring passion and playfulness back to the marriage.
0:43.2	You can find Laura and all of her content at lorddoyle.org. Let's welcome Laura now.
0:48.6	Laura, welcome to the show. It is such an honor to have you join us and to be a part of the
0:52.6	awesome marriage podcast today. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me, Dr. Kim. This is an honor to have you join us and to be a part of the awesome marriage podcast today. Thank you so much.
0:55.0	Thank you for having me, Dr. Kim. This is an honor to be here. Well, it's just so much fun.
0:59.5	This is great talking to you before we went live and just your heart for couples in marriage and ministry.
1:05.7	And we have a kindred spirit there for sure. For sure. So let's jump right in. You say the control and intimacy are opposites.
1:13.2	You can only ever have one or the other.
1:16.5	Why is that?
1:17.6	Well, I learned this the hard way by trying to improve my husband.
1:23.5	When I was first married, I just thought he was the most handsome, smart, talented, funny guy.
1:29.1	And then a few years in, I thought, well, I'm going to just help him improve a little bit.
1:33.3	I'm going to help him be more ambitious and more tidy and also more romantic.
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