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

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This month, the Awesome Marriage, we're talking about reasons your sex life isn't awesome. So all month long, we're going to be focusing on

common reasons that married couples have sex lives that are lacking. Today, we're going to be

talking about a really difficult topic that affects an unfortunate amount of people, which is

past abuse. So many people

who have been, whether it's sexually, physically or mentally abused, find it really difficult

to engage in sex and intimacy in general. And to me, like the most heartbreaking thing about

this all is that it affects so many people. Like just last month, that whole Me Too thing was floating around Facebook over the Henry

Weinstein thing.

And there was over 12 million Facebook posts saying that.

And that's just the people who spoke up about it.

And so it's just such a rampant issue in our culture today.

And it's so sad.

Yeah, it really is. And it's interesting how many people

did something on Facebook. And I think maybe that was a way for people to say something that

maybe hadn't before because I think that's the thing. So much of it has been the victim feels

shameful. They don't say anything. And this has given people an opportunity to speak out because I think it's one of

those hidden things that people I've worked with that have experienced sexual abuse especially

in the past it's it they feel so shameful about it and they feel in some it's so twisted in the

way I think the enemy works and that did it before they feel like it's their fault yeah things like

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