Does more sex make your marriage happier?

That's what we're going to be talking about today.

I am Sheila Ray Gregor from bearmarriage.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 daughter Rebecca Lindenbach. Hello. Which is super weird. Yes, we realize it's weird. We've heard it before. We get it. Yes, to talk about sex together. But, you know, we've researched this. We've talked about this so much that, yeah, it doesn't quite seem as weird anymore.

No, not quite. You can get used to pretty much anything. No, but we've done a ton of research into this topic. We've talked a lot about sexual health. We've looked into the determinants of a healthy sexual life in a marriage, all these things, but we're actually be looking at different people's research today. Yeah. So we've done a lot of research, but there's a bunch of studies that I want to talk about

that kind of combined to try to answer this question, does more sex make your marriage happier?

Because it is kind of convoluted. And I love getting into the nitty gritty of things of questions

like that because it is super it is super interesting where it's not a straightforward answer and so we

have to dig further to figure out what's really going on yeah and that really is our call especially

in the evangelical church is to stop giving these pat one size fits all answers about sex because

it isn't it isn't that easy. There's more going on.

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month to get the unfiltered. And it's super fun. Okay. I want to get to that research, but first, I want to give an example,

or a couple of examples that we'll talk about, of the kind of ways that sex has often talked

about in the evangelical church. And one of them, and this makes me uncomfortable, honestly,

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