Episode 85: Sex, Conflict, and Covenant with Nick Connolly
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jess sits down with her husband Nick Connolly for a raw and honest conversation about the realities of sex and conflict in marriage. Together, they unpack what they've learned with almost 20 years of living life side by side, offering encouragement, laughter, and plenty of truth along the way.
Whether you’re in a relationship, healing from one, or hoping for one someday, this episode is for you.
Let’s go.
Heads up: This episode includes open and honest conversation about sex and intimacy. Listener discretion is advised.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader, |
| 0:07.1 | and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance. |
| 0:14.5 | This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply |
| 0:23.4 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.4 | or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, |
| 0:38.8 | I am praying for you and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. This week, Nick and I sat down with no script, |
| 0:47.8 | no plan, just a handful of raw, unfiltered questions about marriage. We're talking sex. We're talking conflict, |
| 0:56.2 | and we're talking about how messy and beautiful it is to be two imperfect people in a covenant |
| 1:02.7 | relationship with a perfect God. If you're married, if you want to be married, or if you're just |
| 1:08.9 | curious how we handle difficult things behind the |
| 1:11.6 | scenes, this one's for you. We don't have all the answers, but we're showing up honestly |
| 1:16.4 | because that's where healing starts. Let's get into it. |
| 1:22.6 | Nick Connolly, this podcast is the definition of a hard fault, hallelujah. |
| 1:31.4 | Literally. I mean, have we ever fought for something as hard as we fought for this episode? Yes. The answer is yes. Also, |
| 1:36.5 | we've been fighting hard for this. We've been fighting hard for this. We sat down last week. |
| 1:39.8 | We recorded this podcast episode. It actually took us two recording sessions to even get the |
| 1:43.5 | original episode out. |
| 1:45.2 | God bless our children that we had to multiple times because it's summer and they're home. |
| 1:49.3 | And we had to multiple times yell, put your headphones on because we wanted to spare them from this conversation. |
| 1:55.7 | Yes. |
| 1:56.6 | And it took us about two hours to record it the first time. |
| 1:59.9 | Uh-huh. |
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