Welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. This month of awesome marriage, we're talking

about reasons your sex life isn't awesome. So all month long, we're focusing on common reasons

that married couples have sex lives that are maybe lacking. So today we're going to be talking

about one of those things that pains really a lot of married couple sex lives, which is

mental issues and health issues. So Dr. Kim,

there's really two main types of issues that we're going to be talking about today. There's

mental health issues and then there's physical health issues. So, and there's actually a lot of

different issues that fall under each category. It's not like there's one under each. And so to

start things off, Dr. Kim, what are some of the mental health issues mentally

that you see couples that end up affecting their sex lives?

Yeah, I think we look at the common things that we see mental health in our culture

and certainly depression, anxiety or two of those, and those can both affect sex life.

You know, if you're depressed i mean you're

probably the last thing you're thinking about is sex and and so and i think anxiety can be heightened by

sex and i think we're some couples that have a really good sex life maybe that didn't affect it

as much but i think it can and then certainly you get some more of the serious things like bipolar

uh things like that you look at of the serious things like bipolar, things like that.

You look at trauma, you know, things like PTSD that someone that has experience in that can

bring over into the sex life and, you know, eating disorder, sexual addiction. I mean,

there's a lot of things that are around in our culture that I think can get in the way of us

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