How to Rebuild Intimacy With Your Spouse After Porn | Ep. 562
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If porn use has damaged your marriage, you may struggle to feel close and to re-engage in sexual intimacy. You know that healing is possible, but how do you get there?
Today Dr. Kim shares ways that couples can overcome the hurt caused by porn and re-establish the intimacy that will make the marriage thrive again. Time and again, we have seen couples restored, and their marriage even better than before. Tune in today and learn how this can be true for your marriage too.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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Overcoming intrusive thoughts and insecurities
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How porn and comparison are similar
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Why the marriage can be better than before after healing from this
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.5 | Last week on the podcast, we talked about how to regain trust after your marriage has been |
| 0:32.7 | affected by porn. |
| 0:34.0 | And this week, we're talking about how to rebuild intimacy in that situation. If you're in |
| 0:38.9 | the situation, you already know how painful it is. So how do you start to build intimacy back |
| 0:44.5 | after learning that your spouse has been watching porn? We know that this situation is really painful, |
| 0:50.1 | and so we do want to bring this message that God has hope and healing and restoration for your marriage to as many couples as possible. |
| 0:57.2 | And you can actually help us do that just by leaving a rating and review of the podcast. |
| 1:02.2 | You can leave one wherever you're listening today. |
| 1:04.7 | It only takes a few minutes, maybe a minute, but it actually does make a real impact on the visibility of the podcast, |
| 1:11.5 | and it helps new listeners to find the show and hear the biblical marriage advice we're sharing. |
| 1:16.4 | So would you take a minute to do that? It would mean so much to us. So Dr. Kim, as we're |
| 1:20.5 | getting into this topic, when a marriage has been harmed by porn use, how does that affect |
| 1:26.4 | the intimacy? Well, i think and i think |
| 1:31.2 | really like in guys that i've talked to don't realize the depth of the hurt that their wife can feel |
| 1:37.3 | when they use porn or they're thinking well it's not another person and blah blah blah but there is |
| 1:42.2 | something there that um that affects a woman just |
| 1:46.7 | like an affair does i think um and and because a woman says why is he looking at that when he |
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