Love Styles & Your Sex Life
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A good sex life is built on a foundation of trust. But achieving trust in your marriage requires intentional effort. John, Greg and Erin explain how patience and vulnerability can strengthen your marriage and benefit your sex life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You |
| 0:35.6 | can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.4 | marriage podcast. Well just like a house is built on a strong foundation a good |
| 0:46.3 | sex life is built on trust but if you're gonna have trust in your marriage that |
| 0:51.8 | requires safety and vulnerability. I'm John Fuller along with the couple who |
| 0:57.1 | runs our marriage team here at focus Greg and Aaron Smolley and Aaron you do a |
| 1:02.0 | lot of marriage counseling. How often do you find that a sexual struggle in the |
| 1:06.7 | marriage is related somehow to something painful in the past. Very frequently |
| 1:12.7 | John there is something behind what is going on and one of those things can be |
| 1:18.2 | trauma from the past or maybe this was a topic that was never talked about in |
| 1:23.8 | the family of origin that it was a very awkward you know off the table topic but |
| 1:29.6 | there can also be guilt and shame from previous sexual experiences so it's a |
| 1:33.7 | very vulnerable tender topic and so in order to feel safe to bring that up there |
| 1:41.0 | has to be emotional safety within the relationship to know that if I take the |
| 1:45.2 | risk and bring this up are you gonna be there with me and are you gonna be |
| 1:50.1 | there with me if I pursue healing from my past pain or maybe there's even been |
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