49-What Should a "Normal" Marriage Look Like? with Dr. Sandra Glahn
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
4.7 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hi there! Belah here. Today is Part II of my interview with Dr. Sandra Glahn of aspire2.com. On this episode, she talks about her own marriage and the difficulties she face, as well as how she handled these problems. Dr. Glahn discusses about the theological bases of marriages and how everyone’s belief can be skewed at times. She tells us what exactly marriage means---to you, to me, and to God Himself. Join us on this eye-opening and inspiring episode today!
All the links, resources, and show notes available at: http://delightyourmarriage.com/49
Check out Part I at delightyourmarriage.com/48
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and inspiring |
| 0:08.1 | wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage. |
| 0:13.8 | Here's your host, Bella Rose. |
| 0:17.6 | Hi there, and welcome. |
| 0:19.4 | This is the Delight Your Marriage podcast, and I'm so grateful you're here again |
| 0:23.7 | with me today, Bella Rose. And also I'm talking to Dr. Sandra Glon and she's talking about what it was like |
| 0:33.0 | in her marriage. And then also she gives us some great insight even right away about how we should |
| 0:40.9 | be able to be on all sorts of the normal spectrum and that's okay and even biblically it's okay |
| 0:48.9 | she's got so much resources that i have linked up at delight your marriage.com. So go there to check out the resources she mentions. |
| 0:57.1 | But do listen in because she's got some really weathered by not only time, but research |
| 1:05.6 | and digestion of the Bible and scripture and understanding the things I don't even get close to |
| 1:12.0 | understanding. So I want you to definitely listen in. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, I would just summarize it as a theology of the body. |
| 1:27.6 | It affected a book that Dr. Kutreier and I wrote, Sexual Intimacy and Marriage. |
| 1:33.9 | We recognize that a lot of people were talking about their sexual difficulties when in many cases there was either a physical problem causing pain that people attributed to a psychological or spiritual problem, or the opposite, they did not have satisfying technique because there wasn't kindness in their marriage. |
| 1:56.6 | They needed a better theology of how to interact with each other. |
| 2:01.1 | They needed verses like be kind to one another, tender heart of forgiving. |
| 2:05.6 | And a recognition that the goal of marriage is oneness, which means that there is no one model for what is the ideal marriage. |
| 2:15.0 | The two of you work out what works for you. What, where you're supposed satisfied. And some books will say, gosh, if you're not having sex three times a week, you know, you're not meeting each other's needs. It's like, wow, well, you have a guy with low testosterone and a woman with no desire. If they're happy, why are we giving them the standard? |
| 2:35.5 | It's up to them to decide what their level of satisfaction is. |
| 2:40.9 | So it comes sort of back to a theology of the body. |
| 2:44.2 | Again, a view of the human body, a view of marriage that it is something that God creates this amalgamation of two people |
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