Marriage: Becoming One Flesh, Part 1

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The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

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🗓️ 7 November 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On this week’s podcast, Dan and Becky Allender continue our six-part Marriage series, which began with Leaving (Part One, Part Two), moved to Cleaving (Part One, Part Two), and ends with Weaving—what it means for a couple to weave together as one flesh. To put it another way, we’re talking about sex.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.0	This week in the conclusion of our marriage series, Dan and his wife, Becky Allender, share more about what they have learned in their 39 years of marriage, particularly in the area of sexual intimacy.
0:19.0	Dan and Becky share insights from their own story
0:22.2	about what it takes to grow a marriage
0:23.9	that is marked by kindness rather than contempt.
0:29.4	As we consider sexuality,
0:32.8	we try to put words to things that we wish we had known.
0:37.4	Really, another way of saying that is those were areas of significant struggle for us
0:44.3	and don't have a final resolve, but we've tackled.
0:51.3	We've tackled.
0:52.3	We've grown.
0:53.3	We've addressed some of these issues in a way that allows us in our 39th year of marriage to actually say we're doing pretty well. How have we grown? When you think, Becky, about what you've brought to this process, you know, where does your mind go?
1:15.6	Well, I think I'm more aware of my body.
1:19.5	I'm more aware that my body is different than yours.
1:22.7	I think I'm more aware that we have an enemy that wants us to make us feel stupid and less than that we are
1:32.9	and our sexuality is a focus for the enemy and to realize we have got to pray against that
1:44.0	and also be kind to one another against that because it's so important.
1:49.0	Well, I think one of the things that you named after a moment of sexual Congress, we were beginning to make love and he said, I don't know what to do with my arm.
2:06.6	Yeah, I mean, that's one of these aging things.
2:09.3	Like, I don't remember my arms like being in the way when we were younger, and then you
2:13.4	realized, oh, well, we're in a hotel room and we're on the different side of the bed
2:17.6	that we normally are. And we just laugh. I mean, we just laugh a lot when we are in bed
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