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 not sure if this is your first time listening, but if it is, this is a podcast where I encourage wives to live in wholehearted intimacy in their marriage. So we talk about sex, we talk about emotional intimacy, and specifically, I wanted to talk directly to husbands.

Now, this is actually the second version that I'm posting about this topic.

After re-listening to the first version that I posted a couple of weeks ago,

I realized that I wanted to post something that was a little more focused on the

husband that is already doing a lot of these things. You know, I received an email specifically

from a husband that felt like these are the things that he's doing. And yet still, he's not gaining

traction for, you know, any kind of positive movement into greater sexual intimacy with his wife.

And, you know, at first I was, you know, my, my knee-jerk reaction was, well,

he's probably not doing those things. But I think just a couple of weeks, I've, I feel a little bit

more, maybe a little more insight of how I can kind of direct the husband that really is moving in this

direction. So like I said, I wanted to post this and post this a little bit more positively because

like I said, you know, sometimes when I receive emails from husbands, it's pretty

bad what's going on in their marriage in terms of how the husband is treating the wife. And so I think

that was kind of the mindset I was coming from with that initial posts. So like I said, I want to

post something a little bit more for the man that really is

doing these things right, that really is loving his wife and the way that Jesus would want him to.

And yet still the intimacy in, you know, the place he feels most love is really, really just not there.

So I guess here are the things I wanted to

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