Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

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Today on Ask Dr. Kim, our question is our sex life is getting dull. What can we do to spice things up?

So, Dr. Kim, is it common for a married couple sex life to getting dull. What can we do to spice things up? So Dr. Kim, is it common for a married couple of sex life to get dull at some point in

their marriage?

I think it can because I have couples tell me that.

And maybe the word I hear more than dull probably is routine that we kind of get in this

routine of whatever it is, you know,

ever Saturday night. And when we have watched a movie and go to bed for five minutes

and have sex or something like it or whatever, just something where you're not putting,

being more intentional about it and becomes routine. And I think we live in a culture that

that puts sex out there so much all the

time. And you think, my gosh, every time we're at sex, it's got to be exciting. And rockets

need to go off and whatever, you know, that that you see and think about and stuff like that.

So what you've got to figure out is a couple then, how do we make that for us? What's going to be good for us?

And I think anybody can, I think there's set stages of our life in our marriage who are more

prone to let it be more routine or dull or not happen as much. Certainly, we've talked a lot

about when you have kids and after that and you're tired more and those kind of things.

What are you doing those situations?

And you certainly want to continue to nurture your sex life because there's so many

benefits that come out of it, not just the feeling of sex, but the closeness and

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