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It's so often in our culture and entertainment to see sex as just easy, natural, it's the goal.

It's actually the starting point for so many relationships.

But the really best sex, the studies show, is a result of an ongoing commitment in marriage.

I'm John Fuller in the studio with Dr. Greg

Smalley and his wife, Aaron, who lead the Focus Marriage Department. And Greg, how do you

encourage couples to realize that physical intimacy is, it's a journey, it's a process, and it takes

time. Yeah, in marriage, this is such a beautiful gift. And to understand that

there is no such thing as sexual compatibility. Often you hear that phrase as a justification

for cohabitation, like we're going to live together to make sure that we're sexually compatible.

It's such a lie because what that's saying is that it's a fixed point.

Like we can determine if right now in the season with all of whatever's going on uniquely now,

are we compatible sexually now?

Yeah.

That is so not marriage in real life.

Yeah.

It's sex is a learned journey along the adventure of marriage.

We're going to continue to learn about each other because we're always changing.

And so the illusion is, well, in this moment, oh, you know, sex is great, therefore we're

sexually compatible, doesn't factor in.

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