#279: How We Keep Intimacy Alive in Our Marriage with Kids and Business
The Awake With Jake Show
Jake Woodard
5.0 • 819 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Keeping intimacy alive in marriage is not always easy, especially when you are raising kids and running a business together. Most couples drift into survival mode where passion fades, connection weakens, and the relationship starts to feel more like a partnership than a romance. In this video my wife Melissa and I share the raw truth about what it actually takes to keep desire, playfulness, and emotional closeness alive in the middle of real life responsibilities.
We talk about the masculine and feminine dynamics that make a marriage thrive, how we create space for intimacy even with kids and work pulling at our attention, and the practices that have kept us deeply connected. Whether you are married with kids, building a business, or just preparing for the future, this conversation will show you how to strengthen your bond, avoid the roommate phase, and keep the fire burning for years to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of The Awake with Jake Show. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm your host Jake Woodard and it is my mission to restore the natural balance of masculine and feminine energies within relationships. |
| 0:13.4 | We are at a very pivotal point within our society right now where there is a reversal happening of masculine energy and feminine energy within men and women. |
| 0:21.4 | And it's my duty and obligation as a man to help restore that. |
| 0:25.8 | So in these episodes, you will be learning key insights on how to uplevel your relationships |
| 0:31.4 | by dialing in your communication, your masculine and feminine energies, |
| 0:36.2 | and your overall intimate connection. |
| 0:38.6 | Let's get ready to lock in. |
| 0:40.5 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:42.0 | If your marriage has hit a wall and you guys feel like roommates more than lovers, then |
| 0:47.9 | today's episode is a very special one because I have brought my incredible, amazing, lovely |
| 0:52.5 | wife, Melissa on, and we are going to be |
| 0:54.8 | talking all things marriage, children, and business, and how we have created a thriving, intimate |
| 1:02.3 | connection throughout this process of being together and building a life and family together. |
| 1:08.0 | It doesn't have to be bad or terrible. And I want people to know that. |
| 1:12.3 | I feel like that's where I want to start. It's just saying you can have a really healthy, |
| 1:15.9 | awesome relationship, but it takes work and it takes commitment. And so when people say to you, |
| 1:22.4 | just wait until you have kids or just wait until you get married, it's, you're never going to |
| 1:26.5 | like see each other again or it's never going to be the same. |
| 1:29.3 | It can actually be a lot better if you allow it to. |
| 1:32.1 | And I think that's a good place to start is like just sharing that because we've really |
| 1:37.3 | gotten ourselves to this amazing place and I love our life so much. |
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