In sports, every team needs both a good defense and a good offense.

One of those is designed to prevent the opponent from scoring.

The other is meant to score points.

And today we're going to talk about how you can play offense, score some points as a

couple.

I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron, who lead the focus marriage

team.

And let's revisit a conversation that focus president Jim Daly and I had with Dr. Julie

Slattery, in which she talked about how playing offense in your marriage can lead to greater

intimacy.

Describe what that looks like, that idea that, you know, we have, especially with physical

intimacy, what is playing offense?

Yeah.

So playing offense is, you know, I use that in reference to physical intimacy because

I think a lot of times, all we do in marriages think about the defense, like how do we check

the box?

How do we make sure nobody's using porn?

How do we, a fair proof for our marriage?

And there certainly is a time and a place where we need to have conversation about keeping

on defense and having our guard up.

But if all you ever plays defense, you never win.

You never gain ground.

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