Episode 263: How Stress Affects Sex (and Vice Versa)

Sex Chat for Christian Wives

Chris Taylor

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Sexuality, Christianity

4.7 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Stress can follow you into your marriage bed, shaping desire and connection. We unpack how it disrupts intimacy and what to do.

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From the Bible

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sex Chat for Christian Wives, where three marriage bloggers discuss the naked truth.
0:06.0	What does God really want for the sexual intimacy in our marriages? I'm Bonnie Burns of strong wives.
0:12.6	I'm Chris Taylor of Honeycomb and Spice. And I'm Jay Parker, of Hot, Holy and Humorous. Pull up a chair to our
0:19.2	virtual kitchen table and let's chat.
0:22.6	Welcome to another episode of sex chat for Christian wives.
0:26.1	Today we are talking about stress and sex.
0:30.5	We've had many, many episodes where the topic has come up as kind of a peripheral,
0:36.1	but today we're going gonna revisit stress and sex.
0:39.9	You know, stress doesn't stay in your schedule,
0:41.8	it follows you into your marriage bed,
0:44.0	shaping desire and connection.
0:46.1	In this episode, we unpack how pressure
0:48.9	and emotional overload disrupt intimacy
0:51.5	in ways couples often misunderstand.
0:53.9	If love is there, but closeness feels distant,
0:56.3	this might help you understand why. So ladies, our very first question is how does stress affect
1:02.2	sexual desire and interest? Well, as women, everything in life affects our sexual desire and
1:08.9	interest. So there's that. Yeah, that's entirely true. And also,
1:14.4	there is this physical component to it. When you have stressed, there's something called cortisol
1:19.8	that your body sends out, I guess it's a hormone or something, that actually dampens sexual
1:26.5	interest.
1:31.6	And it's probably it's your body kind of telling you to pay attention to the things that are stressing you out to resolve them.
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