Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Gregor from Bear Marriage.com,

where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your

marriage. And I am joined today by my husband Keith. Hey, Keith, the co-author of our new book, The Marriage You Want. And we're going to talk

about emotional connection and just how to feel intimate today. It's going to be fun. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, we have some horrible clips to share, some just atrocious takes. From guys who think that that's a bad thing like like we're going to

talk about being emotionally intimate and I'm like yes that's great I'm excited about that because

it's such a great thing is human beings all along for intimacy and they're like no men don't need

that stuff yeah that's that's the kind of men there are that we're talking about today so we'll be

sharing that and and then and then I'm hoping that we're going to end with

some practical tips from the marriage you want on how to grow your emotional connection.

Before we do that, I want to say thank you to two different groups of people. First of all,

to our sponsor, Brazos Press and the book Becoming the Pastor's Wife by Beth Allison Barr.

Thank you for sponsoring this podcast. We had Beth on the podcast two weeks ago.

It was a really great episode.

And we shared our go-be-free webinar last week.

And I'll be sharing a little bit, yeah, a little bit in a couple of minutes on why I really

feel her book is so important just to change the conversation about what it means for women

to serve in ministry.

And it made the New York Times bestseller list last week, which is awesome.

And hopefully that conversation is happening.

And then, of course, thank you to our patrons who give us our safe space on the internet.

You know, we love our Facebook group.

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