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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Overcoming Sexual Obstacles in Your Marriage

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The sexual relationship with your spouse is one of the most important parts of your marriage. But having a good sex life requires intentional and honest communication. Greg, Erin and John address working through different expectations for sex in your marriage.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.2

today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You

0:35.6

can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage

0:41.1

podcast. In the Bible in the New Testament book First Corinthians the Apostle

0:46.4

Paul encouraged married couples not to neglect having sex on a frequent basis

0:51.5

and the truth is of course that your sex life is very important but it can

0:56.4

also be complicated and we have some help for you today. I'm John Fuller along

1:01.4

here with my focus colleagues and friends Greg and Aaron Smiley and Greg in the

1:06.5

professional marriage counseling you've done. I offer some observations about

1:10.1

those different expectations that most of us probably have in marriage. Yeah

1:14.8

that's normal to have them because we see this constantly even the marriage

1:19.4

assessment that we do over a million people have taken this in sex is the

1:25.2

number one struggle that couples experience especially around how often that

1:29.6

we will be having sex usually a big mismatch in desire or frequency it just

1:35.4

creates so much conflict. I remember watching a movie one time and this

1:39.9

therapist is kind of separately interviewing the husband and the wife just

1:44.8

around sex and so first this therapist asked the husband you know how how often

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