Healthy Ways for Wives to Discuss Sex
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Talking to your spouse about sex can be very awkward and uncomfortable. If you are trying to work through a sexual struggle in your marriage, you're not alone. Greg, Erin and John discuss how couples can have honest and healthy conversations about sex.
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| 1:12.0 | It's been observed that wives have a lot of power when it comes to physical |
| 1:17.4 | intimacy in marriage, but this is a subject that both women and men are |
| 1:22.4 | pretty uncomfortable talking about. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm John Fuller along with my friends and focus colleagues Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife |
| 1:28.8 | Aaron and Aaron you do a lot of counseling and I wonder how common it is for you to have a wife say you know I just don't feel like having any sort of intimacy with my husband. |
| 1:40.0 | A very common I hear that quite a bit, but it's really looking at it. It can come from both directions that it could be a wife, it could be a husband saying, I don't want to be intimate. |
| 1:54.0 | When there's been conflict, when there's been |
| 1:57.0 | unresolved issues, when there's stress, |
| 2:00.0 | that impacts intimacy in a marriage. That impacts the |
| 2:04.2 | the desire to have sex it's interesting because the definition of sex |
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