Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and inspiring

wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage.

Here's your host, Bella Rose.

Hi there, and welcome.

I'm glad you're at the Delight Your Marriage podcast. If this is your first time, we are talking about intimacy in marriage, whether that's emotional intimacy, growing closer together as a couple in your union, or maybe it's spiritual intimacy as you grow closer to God and you grow in that journey together. Or it might be physical intimacy where you're learning and getting inspired

to make love to your spouse, to your partner in this life. That is what we are discussing. So today, sexual respect.

What does that mean, first of all? And how do you know if you're receiving sexual respect? And how do you

know if you're giving appropriate sexual respect?

That's what we're going to talk about because there might be some underlying tensions that are going on that need to be dealt with in order to allow you to be free, confident, and fulfilled in lovemaking

and as well for your spouse.

So let's dive in.

So what does it mean? So what does it mean to have sexual respect? So I think the first thing to think about is what is your sexuality as a woman? What does it mean for you? What is your sexuality? Well, I think that includes your desire for sex. I think it includes the way you think about sex. I think it includes the way you seduce your husband. I think it includes the way you dress for him, the way you

tease him, the way you talk to him in a seductive way, or even when you're making love,

your smell, your taste, your orgasm, your desire for orgasm, your body, the way it looks, the way it feels, all of these things are included in your sexuality.

And when that is not respected, that's a big issue.

When that is taken for granted by your husband,

maybe he feels like you're always going to make love when he initiates or maybe he feels like

he doesn't need to be excited when you're having sexual advances towards him because he's

always used to that or you know fill in the blank but if you're feeling like you're taken fill in the blank.

But if you're feeling like you're taken for granted,

I think that is not being sexually respected.

I think if you're, you know, coming up against some issues, like he's being unfaithful to you in ways that might not be

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