meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Marriage After God

Navigating a Sexless Marriage: Advice and Hope for Couples

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, we open up about our personal struggle with a sexless marriage, something we grappled with for many years. We delve into our journey, discuss the common causes of a sexless marriage, and provide potential solutions that helped us and may help other couples too. While each couple's experience is unique, we hope our story provides guidance and hope to those facing a similar situation. Key Points Discussed: Understanding Our Issue: We emphasize that it's crucial not to define our entire marriage by sex. Although sex is a vital aspect of a marital relationship, it shouldn't overshadow the other elements that make a marriage meaningful. Dealing with Our Discouragement: We share how living in a sexless marriage can feel lonely and discouraging. We discuss the importance of identifying and challenging the lies and doubts that may arise in such times. Our Practical Solutions: We believe it's essential to acknowledge that choosing to live in a sexless marriage isn't healthy or beneficial. We explore the practical steps we took to address this issue in a way that aligns with our faith and spiritual beliefs. Avoiding External Pitfalls: We stress the importance of resisting the temptation to seek fulfillment outside the marriage through mediums like romance novels or pornography, which can worsen the situation rather than help. Maintaining Hope and Encouragement: We discuss our journey through a sexless marriage, which required maintaining a positive mindset, keeping faith, and continually encouraging each other. Prayer: Dear Lord, Thank you for the special gift of sex in marriage. We appreciate the way you designed to experience being one flesh in a physical way. We pray we would continually pursue one another and posture our hearts to be inviting and ready and willing to embrace each other. We pray over our marriage and specifically our sex in marriage that we would be blessed and fulfilled. Please help us to love one another and meet each others needs. We pray when we come together; it would be a positive experience. In Jesus’ name AMEN!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Sex. A word that holds so much connotation. And this one word contains a universe of

0:11.7

emotion and impression, some positive, some negative, and even some destructive, pleasure,

0:17.8

excitement, intimacy and family, but also fear, pain, guilt and loneliness. How can one

0:25.6

little three-letter word carry with it so much power and weight? Maybe it's because this was God's

0:30.9

design. That sex would not be something to be viewed lightly, but was meant to be held in the

0:36.1

highest regard. Hey, we're in Jennifer Smith, your host of Emerald Jeffergod podcast. This week,

0:42.5

we're incredibly thankful, thankful, for the ongoing support of our wonderful patrons,

0:46.8

who found value on our daily prayer emails in this podcast, and have generously chosen to pay

0:51.6

forward. We've been on this journey together since our podcast inception in 2018, and even earlier

0:57.0

with our daily prayer emails from 2015. Every year, our family of listeners grows, and with it,

1:02.9

so does the costs. We're now inviting you, our listeners, to partner with us in this mission to

1:07.7

keep offering these resources free of charge. To become a patron, stand and stand with us.

1:12.8

Please head to marriageaftergod.com, forward slash patron, and join today. And if you haven't yet

1:18.0

joined our daily prayer email community, we want to invite you to sign up at marriageprachallenge.com.

1:23.2

Let's continue this journey together. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Well, hope you guys

1:28.0

just have an awesome week. Yeah. I am. Suns out, even though it kind of snowed yesterday.

1:33.4

It was just crazy to me. Philly, Oregon. I know, Oregon's crazy. But we have, before we

1:39.1

jump into our topic, we always like to kind of start off with kind of just some life stuff.

1:43.4

And specifically, I was just thinking this week, because we've been doing so much stuff in the

1:48.5

backyard and the house. I was just thinking about how nothing ever lasts forever. Like, it doesn't

1:56.2

matter how brand new it is. You know, both our cars need issues that need fixing right now. I have

2:03.6

a check-in. Slide on one. I have an air conditioner. It's not working the other. And then we've been in

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron & Jennifer Smith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Aaron & Jennifer Smith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.