From Estero, Florida, this is a one extraordinary marriage show.

We're being busy is overdone, romancing is fun, and scheduling sex has taken the guestwork out of wondering when you're going to get some. I'm Tony DeLorenzo, your co-host, along with my beautiful wife, Elisa. From coast to coast and around the world, thank you for joining us. It's time to talk sex, love, and commitment. Give us a call or text us on the

hug hotline at 858, 876563, or send us an email to Hugs at One Extraordinary Marriage.com.

In today's episode, we're addressing how chronic illness, hormonal imbalance, and lifelong medical conditions can impact intimacy

in your marriage and what you can do to stay connected through it all.

There's a quote from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross that says, beautiful people do not just happen.

They are forged through trials, struggles, and loss.

And I think that really, as we talk about this intersection of lifelong medical

conditions or chronic conditions and the six pillars of intimacy in your marriage, I think so many

of those couples that we've seen over the years are those beautiful couples that have been forged

through trial, struggles, and loss. And we're going to be talking about that in today's episode.

But first, we start every episode with a hug.

And, you know, a hug is really our opportunity to acknowledge the intentionality that you're

bringing into your marriage, to recognize where you're addressing one pillar or another

and saying, this is what we're focused on.

And this hug comes from a comment that was

on a post in the one family private Facebook group that simply said, we worship together every

night, every Monday night. We worship, pray, talk about everything going on in our lives, kids,

our marriage, et cetera. It has changed our lives and we're so much more connected all the time.

Focusing in on that spiritual intimacy pillar.

Absolutely.

And, you know, it really does highlight the fact that a lot of times it's the little things

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