Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and

practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

Today we're going to be talking about three ways to do intimacy her way. Husbands, we want to help you out with some practical ways to build intimacy

into your marriage the way your wife needs it and wants it. If you are new to the show,

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So, Dr. Kim, I think it's pretty important that first and foremost, let's define intimacy.

What is intimacy?

Yeah, I think it is. I was even thinking if we're preparing for this, that I used to use

probably the term intimacy and sex interchangeably, and I realized that I was not

getting across to couples what I really wanted to sometimes.

So now I talk about the physical relationship and intimacy is separate, because I think they

are, even though I think a lot of times you mention intimacy and someone thinks sex.

But I think they're not the same thing.

Intimacy can lead to sex, but I think it needs to kind of stand on its own,

something that draws a couple together.

And there's things, you know, communication can be intimate.

Well, that's not sex.

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