No Drive Postpartum, Facetime Sex, and Intimacy Despite Chronic Illness (Answering Listener Questions)
Sex Chat for Christian Wives
Chris Taylor
4.6 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We tackle some tough listener questions today, with a biblical perspective and authenticity. Learn what we have to say about a lack of desire postpartum, a husband who wants to engage sexually through Facetime, and maintaining intimacy when chronic illness makes it difficult.
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From the Bible
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25 (ESV)
Resources
- Motherhood and Libido • Bonny's Oysterbed7
- Q&A with J: Baby's Here, But Sex? Not So Much. - Hot, Holy & Humorous
- After Baby Comes Along | The Forgiven Wife
- How Having Kids Depleted My Sexual Desire - Knowing Her Sexually (written for husbands)
- Helping Your Wife Balance Motherhood and Sexual Intimacy - Knowing Her Sexually (written for husbands)
- Episode 177: Addressing Sexual Pain, with Debby Wade - Sex Chat for Christian Wives
- Sliquid Soul Coconut Oil Personal Lube - Married Dance
- Amazon Fresh, Organic Virgin Coconut Oil (for personal lubricant, use virgin/unrefined coconut oil)
- When My Sex Life Sucked - Part 1 - Hot, Holy & Humorous
- When My Sex Life Sucked - Part 2 - Hot, Holy & Humorous
- Better Help (use code 4CW to get 10% off your first month)
- Why I Took My Breast Implants Out - Hot, Holy & Humorous
- Sex Advice for Wives with Chronic Illness - Honeycomb & Spice
- Dealing with Erection Problems | The Forgiven Wife
- Bullet Vibrator Pilot Program - Married Dance
- Penis Sleeves and Strokers - Married Dance
- Maintaining Sexual Intimacy When Sex isn’t Possible by Chris Taylor – WORTHY Bible Studies
- Enjoy a Plus-Size Sex Life, Part 1 - Honeycomb & Spice
- Enjoy a Plus-Size Sex Life, Part 2 - Honeycomb & Spice
Thanks for joining us at the virtual kitchen table for another great chat! If you could, we’d appreciate you leaving a rating and/or review so that others can find the show.
Please be sure to check out our website and webinars at forchristianwives.com. And visit our individual ministry pages for more resources as well:
Strong Wives - Bonny Burns
Honeycomb & Spice - Chris Taylor
Hot, Holy & Humorous - J. Parker
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's been years in the making, but it's finally here. My latest book, The Higher Desire |
| 0:05.0 | Wife, addresses the scenario that 15 to 25% of marriage is experience, a wife who wants |
| 0:11.0 | sex more than her husband. We look at why there's a mismatch in your sex drives, how to |
| 0:15.5 | approach your husband lovingly and effectively, and how to close the gap. You'll come away with |
| 0:20.5 | a better understanding, practical |
| 0:22.2 | ideas on what to do, and the deep sense that you're not alone and things can get better. Find |
| 0:27.5 | encouragement and answers with the higher desire wife by Jay Parker. Purchase links in the show notes. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to Sex Chat for Christian Wives, where three marriage bloggers discuss the naked truth. |
| 0:40.0 | What does God really want for the sexual intimacy in our marriages? |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Bonnie Burns of Strong Wives. |
| 0:46.6 | I'm Chris Taylor of Honeycomen Spice. |
| 0:48.9 | And I'm Jay Parker, of Hot, Holy, and Humorous. |
| 0:51.8 | Pull up a chair to our virtual kitchen table and let's chat. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome back to sex chat for Christian wives. |
| 0:59.3 | We are here this week with listener questions. |
| 1:03.0 | And we are going to cover a variety of different things. |
| 1:07.3 | So we're going to start with Jay's question that she chose. Okay. Wonderful listener, |
| 1:13.3 | wrote in and said, I am almost a year postpartum and have zero drive for intimacy. I am still |
| 1:19.5 | breastfeeding and I'm not on birth control. Is this normal? Should I get my hormones checked? |
| 1:24.3 | Any resources would be helpful. So what do you all think? Well, I don't think she needs |
| 1:28.2 | to get her hormones checked. We can already tell what's probably going on here, right? I think so. |
| 1:35.2 | Bonnie, you're the expert on biology. So I'm going to let you talk about the hormones. Well, |
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