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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

God's Plan for Your Sex Life

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

God designed sex to be a wonderful gift for you and your spouse. Yet, many couples are trying to work through a sexual struggle. If that's you today, we want to give you some hope. John, Greg and Erin discuss God's design for sexuality, and offer encouragement to those with a dark sexual past.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.2

today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You

0:35.6

can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash

0:40.4

marriage podcast. There's so many wonderful aspects to marriage and surely the

0:46.4

sexual aspect of your marriage is one of the greatest gifts. But when you and

0:51.4

your spouse talk about that topic, it's important to do so with love and grace.

0:56.4

I'm John Fuller along with the couple who's in charge of our marriage team

1:00.5

here at focus on the family. Dr. Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron and Aaron, you

1:05.2

work with couples. How often do you find that to be a problem for couples? Yeah I

1:09.8

would say very common. It's it's actually more common that there is a struggle

1:14.8

sexually than not. I would say I would put it up there at like 80 85% of

1:20.6

couples that come in. There's some sort of sexual struggle and it's looking at

1:25.4

there's differing desires and you know maybe there's a disinterest and I

1:29.5

feel betrayed or I feel alone in this like you're not interested in me. But you

1:34.7

know there's deeper things going on. So it's important that we take time to

1:38.8

really explore that and discuss it. Granted like we talked about in an earlier

1:43.0

episode, it's often hard and difficult to bring it up and to to say you know

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