Well, hey, friend. Welcome again to Job With Julie, hosted by me Julie Slattery. Let me remind you that this is a listener-supported podcast. It's an outreach of authentic intimacy, which is a ministry dedicated to helping people make sense of God and sexuality. Well, today we're going to talk about attraction. Does attraction matter? Is attraction always sinful?

Is attraction always sexual? You know, I think we talk a lot about sex and attraction on this podcast,

but I'm not sure if we've ever done just a basic episode talking about what attraction and desire are and how they impact us.

So we thought it might be helpful to address some of the recurring questions and beliefs

that many of us have around attraction and to go a little deeper and understand the

various types of attraction, what impacts them, and how they shift and grow over time.

Joining me today for this conversation is Job with Julie favorite, my cousin Hannah Nitz.

Now many of you know Hannah and love Hannah.

You come up and tell me all the time how much you love her laugh.

And so she is just the perfect person to join me as we dive into this conversation.

So grab your coffee and enjoy this episode all about

attraction and desire. Hey, what's up, Julie?

How are you? Welcome to Job with Julie Hannah. Thank you. Happy to be here. Always am.

Yeah, you up for this conversation. You know, Julie, I think I am. I always get very little information from you.

Okay.

So today you said, we're just going to talk about attraction.

That seems like a fun word choice.

Tell me why attraction?

What's up with this?

You know, sometimes what we do, Hannah, is when we have people asking us questions at authentic intimacy. Yeah. And we feel like... You get a fair amount of questions. Yeah, we get a lot of questions. And there's some questions we're like, oh, we have a podcast episode that answers that or a blog that addresses that. Yeah, we got 10 years of content. Yeah, there you go. We've got a lot. We can point you to that. Yeah, but every now and then we get questions. There's like, no, we really haven't like hit that topic on the nose. Like maybe we've talked around it, but we haven't like really addressed it. Don't you find that hard to believe? Sometimes I do. But then I'm like when I'm out interacting with people, I'm like, yeah, that's a great

question. Like this piece of content kind of addresses it, but not as specifically as you're

asking. Then it gives me ideas of. And guess what, guys, Julie loves answering these questions.

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