Attraction vs. Lust // Hump Day Q&A

The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

XO Marriage

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Welcome to Hump Day Q&A! Our brand new mid-week episode where we are answering one of your questions each week. To submit questions, visit https://xomarriage.com/podcasts/the-naked-marriage/ and submit your question. Today's question is so important. As a married man can you be attracted to someone? In a visual world is there a difference in noticing someone is attractive vs lusting in your heart after them? Listen in today to find out! ------ For all links mentioned in episode & more XO content, visit: https://linktr.ee/nakedmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what time it is, sweetie?
0:08.0	It's hump day Q&A time!
0:10.7	Hump day Q&A!
0:12.9	Hump day Q&A!
0:15.2	Welcome to the Naked Marriage Podcast, Hump day Q&A!
0:19.4	We love answering your questions, so every Wednesday we're dropping a special podcast
0:23.6	episode focused on one of your questions.
0:26.3	You can submit your own marriage related question online at NakedMaragePodcast.com or by sending
0:31.9	a message on Instagram at Dave and Ashley Willis.
0:35.1	We've got a great question today, so let's dive in.
0:39.6	So our question today is, is it okay to be attracted to other people when you're married?
0:45.5	My husband says it's okay because he's not acting on it and still continuously choosing
0:49.6	me regardless of who he sees.
0:51.8	It deeply hurts my feelings to hear him say that.
0:54.0	I feel like attraction is one step away from lust, which leads to sin.
0:58.3	I would love to hear your wisdom on this subject.
1:00.3	It's a great, great question.
1:03.4	And it's very nuanced and it's one where there's a lot of feelings involved because we obviously
1:09.6	want to have eyes only for our spouse, but we live in a world where you're going to see
1:14.3	other people and we can't pretend that those other people don't exist.
1:17.3	And there's certainly a distinction between noticing that someone's an attractive human being
1:22.2	and allowing lust to take over where we're playing like graphic sexual fantasies with
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