Hey there, Bella Rose here. God bless you. I don't know if you sneezed, but I hope that you are having a

good day and I'm glad you join me. So I'm doing readings from my book for a couple months over the

summer. I felt like I needed to take a break and kind of do some things that I felt like

God wanted me to do in the meantime. And so yeah, these are pre-recorded and I hope you were

listening to them as they come out, though, week by week, so that you're encouraged in your week

to enjoy intimacy in your marriage,

to go have sex and enjoy it and be fun and frisky and passionate and godly and holy,

which is all of those things in your marriage. So let's dive into this week's excerpt from Delight Your Husband.

Your feelings are valid.

A part of loving yourself is acknowledging the value of your feelings.

Your emotions often run deep.

They are pointing to something that God may want to heal, to change, to improve, to love on, to allow you to move on,

forgive, to give you understanding about, or just experience. I have trouble in this area. As many of you,

I grew up with some significant dysfunction in my family. My father struggled with

alcoholism and my mother was also raised with some significant dysfunction in her family life.

I learned some damaging things about my feelings. Recently, at a meeting for families of alcoholics,

the leader put it very well.

She said, alcoholism in our family teaches us not to value our own feelings or the feelings of others.

This is true of many other family dynamics or life events, not just alcoholism.

Put another way, if we undervalue our own feelings,

we cannot value the feelings of others. So we need as people to recognize that our feelings have value. I mean, if you remember, Jesus says, love others as you would love yourself.

So clearly, if we're not loving ourselves or loving the feelings the way that God has made us,

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