Pursuing Intimacy with a Reluctant Husband
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Husbands and wives are different physically, emotionally and sexually. Tragically, 1 out of 3 married women have a greater sex-drive than their husbands, which can lead to shame, isolation, and conflict in their marriages. But couples can learn how to draw together and trust God through this struggle, and expand their understanding of intimacy in marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't hold on to the shame and blame of what you're experiencing. This again is a |
| 0:09.3 | we issue and if your husband will not go to counseling with you, begin counseling for yourself. |
| 0:18.0 | Have someone to talk to, someone that's safe, someone that's going to provide you with biblical guidance. |
| 0:25.0 | I don't recommend that you go to girlfriends or to your mom, |
| 0:30.0 | you know, or a sister to begin with. |
| 0:32.8 | This is a really private matter that needs to be addressed. |
| 0:37.3 | With the utmost care, I'm not talking secrecy, |
| 0:41.8 | I'm talking care. |
| 0:43.0 | That's Sherry Mueller describing the pain and the anguish |
| 0:48.0 | that a significant number of wives feel about a lack of intimacy, |
| 0:52.0 | physical intimacy in their marriages. |
| 0:55.0 | This is focused on the family with Jim Daly, and this topic won't be suitable for younger |
| 1:00.0 | listeners. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:03.4 | John, anyone who's been married for probably more than a few days |
| 1:06.8 | realizes that men and women are very different. |
| 1:09.6 | And typically we marry people who are opposite. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, Jean and I even get down to I like dark |
| 1:14.3 | chocolate she likes milk chocolate but it's you know a morning person a |
| 1:18.7 | night owl and introvert an extrovert all those things because typically we're looking for somebody even unconsciously |
| 1:25.6 | that compliments our own abilities and that's just normal. I think that's what the Lord |
| 1:31.9 | means by a completer. |
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