Welcome to Mary Say Podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife, Karen. This podcast exists

to help every married couple succeed in marriage. And we're talking today about the secrets

of lifelong passion and intimacy. Those are the two big words in marriage that everybody

wants to experience passion and intimacy. We're going to be talking to you about how you

can experience that. We first of all, there's going to go to a teaching here in just a few

minutes. First of all, we're going to read some questions from you guys and answer them.

Let me begin, Karen. This is a question. How can you express your love for your spouse

and also satisfy your sexual needs? If your husband refuses to engage in physical affection

or sex, I'm ashamed that he won't be intimate with me.

Gosh, that's a loaded question. I would say definitely he'd counseling because there's

a huge blockage because most men, that's not going to be the case.

If he is shut you off physically and sexually, big, big, big warning flag there, and you

say, well, how can you meet your own needs? You really can't. I mean, not in a satisfying

way, long term, is if your husband has shut you out like that, you got to get counseling.

And we've got here, a marriage today here at Exo Marriage. We have marriage mediators.

You can live in Timbuk too, but they can help you via Zoom or by phone, we're in the

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area here. So if you're in this area, reach out to us, go

on the website there and reach out to us, but they can help you. You really do need counseling.

That's a big deal. And you just can't live in that environment very long without problems,

there's big problems.

Okay. My wife and I have been going through a healing process after she had an affair.

It has been amazing to see God restoring our marriage, but sex is still awkward because

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