MFP 141: Honest Talk about Physical Intimacy: An interview with the founders of Smartloving, Byron and Francine Pirola
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The sexual relationship you have with your spouse is the most intimate relationship you will ever have, but it certainly can be complicated! In this podcast, we have a conversation with Byron and Francine Pirola, founders of Smartloving and international speakers and teachers. Our conversation about physical intimacy between spouses is honest, frank, and explicit, so please listen to this podcast in privacy. But we do believe this information is desperately needed by couples, so we have created a summary and download for you to use after listening to the podcast to create a conversation with your spouse. Please listen in, use this topic as a conversation starter with your spouse, and share with others!
Referenced:
- Free Conversation Starter on Sexual Intimacy: https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/physical-intimacy/
- Webinar with Byron and Francine Pirola: https://smartloving.org/webinars/
- Sign up for our virtual date night with Scott & Kimberly Hahn: https://www.messyfamilyproject.org/date-night-with-hahns/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.8 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.8 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.6 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome. but that I expect because family life is really messy. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | It is so great to have you with us and we have an awesome show today. |
| 0:29.7 | I was going to say, and do we have a treat for you? |
| 0:32.6 | I am so excited about this show. |
| 0:34.7 | But before we get there, I just think it's worth noting that this was a podcast that we did live with our members. |
| 0:44.0 | We created the messy family neighborhood this past summer. |
| 0:46.8 | We have a bunch of couples, 100 or so couples, that are members of our... |
| 0:53.4 | Messy family neighborhood. |
| 0:54.6 | The messy family neighborhood. |
| 0:55.6 | Anyway, so although we do a lot of live interactive stuff with them, |
| 0:59.2 | this is the first time we did an interview and recorded that interview |
| 1:03.1 | so that they could submit questions and interact and be a part of the discussion. |
| 1:08.7 | And the interview was about, obviously, physical intimacy in the married relationship, |
| 1:13.7 | which is such an important topic and something that people send us questions about |
| 1:18.4 | because there's so, there's so few good Catholic resources. |
| 1:22.0 | And so we want to be here to offer this information to you. |
| 1:25.8 | And so we are doing it with them, the parolus, with the people, |
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