Intimacy really is the willingness to endure the negative feelings we get when we get close to another person

because they're gonna hurt us they're gonna do things that like I'm mad that I'm mad about this I'm mad that I'm mad that I'm hurt about this.

I'm hurt that I'm heard about this.

And that's what intimacy really is.

And what it's our willingness, like Josh mentioned,

our willingness to endure those negative feelings. But really when we're

coming together as one flesh we're realizing I'm willing and I'm also

recognizing that there is a purpose that God has for us that we couldn't have accomplished

separately. That's Christy Straub at describing some of the challenges couples

face in marriage and we're so glad to have her back along with her husband

Dr. Josh Straub on today's episode of Focus on the Family with Jim

Daily. I'm John Fuller and we're returning to a conversation that Jim and his wife Jean had with the Straubs at a marriage

conference here in Colorado Springs.

And there was so much good content here for husbands and wives.

There really was, John, and I so appreciate the insights and

vulnerability that Josh and Christie brought to that discussion and it was great to

hear because that's what you want to reflect in a healthy open context like that within your marriage.

Married couples need all help they can get today, especially in this culture we're in.

Marriage has become so devalued and while the majority of adults desire to be married someday they don't

understand the essentials of that commitment which includes sacrifice or you know

able to work through a struggle and

experience true intimacy on the other side of that. That's what Christie was just

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