Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.

I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most

intimate relationship. We are excited to jump into the podcast today, but before we do, we wanted to

let you know that we are going to be taking a two-week break these last two weeks in June,

so we won't be airing any new podcast after today for the rest of June. But don't worry, we will be back. We'll be back

with a new episode on July 2nd. So over the break, it'd be a great time to kind of scroll back

through any episodes that you may have missed because we have a ton of them. So be sure to do that.

Today, we're going to be talking about all about oneness and what it means and how we can't

neglect the spiritual side of sex and marriage.

So Dr. Kim, what does anything spiritual even have to do with sex?

What even is spiritual intimacy?

Yeah, because I think if people think about that, it does seem to go together.

And certainly if you take a secular view or a cultural view of sex, it's like sex and spiritual

or sex and God, where does that

come? And so I think what it is, I think it's, you know, I love the Hebrew word dode and it's,

it's translate a mingling of souls. And I think it's a deep connection that can happen with a couple

in the sexual relationship. And so I think that's where I've always said that I think there's

a difference with

Christian couples because you both have the spirit of God within you.

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