#276: Parenthood, Exhaustion & Avoiding Sex
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
She's a busy and tired mama. He's stressed to the max with work and family. Can't they just put sex and romance on hold for a few years? In this episode, Juli and her guest discuss how to hold on to intimacy when parenting is exhausting, how to bring God into the conversation about when and if to have more kiddos, and what to do when you and your spouse disagree on what the size of your family should be. Grab your java and join us!
Guest: Julie Lyles Carr
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Job with Julie. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Julie Slattery and I'm so glad you've joined me. |
| 0:10.0 | This podcast is an outreach of authentic intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality. |
| 0:17.0 | One of the questions I get asked a lot comes from exhausted moms. They ask, is it okay to push |
| 0:23.9 | paws on our sex life? I mean, after chasing toddlers all day, what if you're too exhausted to make |
| 0:29.1 | love? Well, my guest today is certainly qualified to speak into that question. Julie Lau's car |
| 0:34.8 | and her husband are the parents of eight children. She's also the author of the book Raising an Original, as well as the host of the Modern Motherhood Podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | So in this episode, Julie and I are going to talk about knowing what's got to give when you've got so many things on your plate, |
| 0:50.3 | and why intimacy with your husband shouldn't be one of them. |
| 0:53.3 | That's even when you have young children. |
| 0:55.9 | And we'll also talk about how to bring God into the conversation of whether or not you should have more children. |
| 1:02.0 | And what do you do when you and your spouse disagree on whether or not your family is complete? |
| 1:07.1 | If this is a topic that resonates with you, we'll link to a few blogs I've written, including |
| 1:11.7 | Making Time for Making Love, and also a blog that I wrote one morning after praying for the |
| 1:17.2 | moms on our AI staff. |
| 1:18.9 | It's called Your Husband Need You Too. |
| 1:21.9 | Look for those at our podcast page at Authenticinemacy.com. |
| 1:25.2 | Now let's head to the coffee shop for my conversation with Julie |
| 1:29.0 | Lyle's car. So if I were to ask questions to a mom who's exhausted, you would be the mom, |
| 1:39.2 | right? I would be your mom. I'd be your girl. Yeah, you know a thing or two about that. |
| 1:44.9 | Know a thing or two about being a little exhausted. Yeah. So eight kids, the ages are from what to what now? |
| 1:51.1 | So our oldest is 28, all the way down to twins who are 11, but really want to make it clear that they're going to be 12 very soon. This is very important to them. So eight kids with about 16 and a half years in difference in age from the oldest to the youngest. Now, what time frame were you the most |
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