Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greguer from Bear Marriage.

Where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your marriage and

your sex life and this is episode gosh what is it I think it's two hundred and

seven of the Bear Marriage Podcast and I am joined by my husband Keith.

Hey everybody.

And this is going to be the definitive, the absolute obligation sex message podcast.

It's one of the things that I get asked for the most is questions about obligation sex,

about withholding sex, about what do you say about the do not deprive versus?

And this is something we talk about like constantly,

but I, but whenever people say, do you have something I can show my husband or my

pastor, I have like, okay, we'll have them listen to these five different podcasts and read these six different posts.

And so what I'm trying to do this month on the blog, as we are working through our Obligation Sex Series,

is to have a couple of posts where they're just standalone.

This is everything you want to know and that's what this podcast is too.

So this is everything that you want to know about obligation sex and how we talk about it and how we think about it.

So are you ready? Yeah, sounds good. Okay, so before but before of course we jump into that. I just want to say a big thank you and shout out to our wonderful patrons whose money helps support everything that we do, including especially our research

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