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Intimacy happens from the inside out, not the outside end.

Okay, the more morally depraved a society becomes, the more outwardly focused they have to become

because they don't have anything to go to inwardly and so in our society because we

have become a very morally depraved society.

The more that happens, the more we focus on the outside rather than the inside believing

if everything on the outside is right I'm going to experience

everything I'm looking for. It's exactly the opposite. If everything on the

inside is right I'm going to experience what I want And so you're going to hear me in this message

talk about the issue of inhibitors, but you're also going to hear me talk about ethics.

Every time I mention an inhibitor of intimacy, I'm going to talk about an ethic of intimacy,

I'm going to talk about an ethic of intimacy.

Because ethics, the word ethic means a system

of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.

In other words, when Karen and I act in our marriage,

it's based on the ethic of our marriage.

There's just an ethos in your marriage,

whether you realize it or not that allows and disallows that

causes certain things to happen and keep certain things from happening.

So when Karen and I got married, we had no intimacy.

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