Today's episode is very different from our normal lineup. We're talking about

intimacy and marriage and so if you have littles in the room now would be a good time to

push-pause and either find some headphones or wait until later to listen. We go in depth in this topic as Dr. Jennifer

Finlason Fife answers all of my burning questions and yours from a question box

on Instagram stories about sex and marriage and how you can improve your

marital intimacy. This episode is intended for married couples and is definitely

not intended for a young audience or single people trying to abstain from sex.

Dr. Jennifer Finlaysenfeiff is a relationship and sexuality educator and coach,

as well as a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois,

with a PhD in counseling psychology from Boston College.

She wrote her dissertation on LDS Women and Sexuality. She's taught college level courses on human sexuality and is currently teaching online

relationships and sexuality courses and live workshops to LDS individuals and

couples. The opinions in this episode are those of Dr. Finlison Fison Fipes and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Church of Jesus Christ,

although she and I are both members. I hope you'll take from this episode what's helpful to you

and feels right and leave if anything whatever does not.

I'm so grateful for Dr. Finlison Fife taking the time to record this episode with me and

especially on the week of Valentine's Day I hope it helps bring many married couples closer together.

Okay, tonight I am here with Dr. Jennifer Finleyson Fife and we had the treat of listening to her tonight in Irvine in a

fireside. I don't even know what the non-church term would be for that but basically just a Friday night date night presentation yes and it was wonderful and we talked all about how to strengthen your marriage and right before I actually asked my audience what questions they would have for a marriage intimacy therapist

specialist so I had a lot of questions come in but before we get to those I just want to start off with a little bit of a

story that I was telling you right before we started to record this which is when Neil and I were first married

like nine years ago, we went to another fireside with a church leader of ours at the time and he started giving us some

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