Overcoming Physical Obstacles to A Great Sex Life | Ep. 542
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Whether it's illness, aging, or another physical issue, there are some physical obstacles that can prevent couples from enjoying a great sex life together. Today we address several common physical barriers to a great sex life in your marriage, and provide practical ways to address them and enjoy God's gift of sex in your marriage!
Episode highlights include:
- Steps to resolving any physical barriers that impede sex
- How to deal with physical disabilities or permanent changes
- Help with your mindset as it relates to physical changes
- Does sex have to mean intercourse?
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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RESOURCES
- Make this Valentine's weekend special with a lasting impact with the Online Marriage Retreat!
- Levi & Jennie Lusko podcast episode
- Celebration of Sex by Douglas Rosenau
- The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability by Miriam Kaufman
- Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability by A. Andrews
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Well, whether it is illness, aging, or another physical |
| 0:32.6 | issue, there are some physical barriers that can really keep couples from enjoying great sex |
| 0:37.3 | together. So today we're going to address several of the most some physical barriers that can really keep couples from enjoying great sex together. |
| 0:37.9 | So today we're going to address several of the most common physical barriers to a great |
| 0:42.4 | sex life in your marriage to help you find ways to address them and enjoy God's gift of sex |
| 0:47.1 | in your marriage. A quick search of physical issues that affect sex life tells us that |
| 0:52.3 | things like hormonal changes, menopause, testosterone levels, |
| 0:57.1 | those have both physical and emotional side effects. |
| 1:00.0 | There's rectile dysfunction. |
| 1:02.2 | There's low libido. |
| 1:04.0 | Being overweight might affect your ability to get into some sexual positions and libido as well. |
| 1:09.4 | Medications, there's side effects. And then we have things like depression, well, medications, their side effects. |
| 1:11.3 | And then we have things like depression, anxiety, illness, or disability. |
| 1:15.5 | Dr. Kim, what else would you add to that list? |
| 1:18.1 | Well, it's kind of interesting. |
| 1:19.0 | I was looking yesterday just kind of through, and I found a study that had been done |
| 1:24.4 | from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And they said by the year 2030, |
| 1:29.6 | as many as 170 million people in the United States, more than half of all Americans, |
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