Reasons Your Sex Life Isn't Awesome: You Aren't Practicing True Monogamy | Ep. 159
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Many couples struggle with sex in their marriage. Sex is a gift from God and His plan for you and your marriage is for your sexual relationship with your spouse to thrive! Today on the podcast Dr. Kim and Christina share about one reason your sex life might be lacking: if you aren't practicing true monogamy. True monogamy isn't just not having an affair; it's so much more than that. Dr. Kim & Christina define true monogamy and explain why if you aren't practicing this you're missing out on God's greater plan for sex in your marriage. They give practical advice and tips on how to practice true monogamy.
Tune in to learn more about how to to make sure your sex life is awesome!
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:11.9 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith. |
| 0:15.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:21.1 | So this month, the Awesome Marriage, we're talking about the reasons that your sex life |
| 0:25.1 | isn't awesome. |
| 0:26.0 | So all month long, we're focusing on common reasons that married couples have sex |
| 0:30.0 | life that might be lacking. |
| 0:31.5 | Today, we're going to be talking about one big reason a lot of people aren't experiencing |
| 0:36.2 | sex at its best and the way that got intended. |
| 0:39.0 | We're going to be talking about practicing true monogamy. So to kick things off, Dr. Kim, |
| 0:43.4 | what is true monogamy? What do we mean by that? I think most of the time we think of monogamy, |
| 0:48.1 | we're thinking about one person, one one, one spouse, only having sex with one, with your spouse |
| 0:52.5 | the rest of your life. But I think what we're talking here, we're talking about in our thoughts, in our actions and our words, |
| 0:59.9 | the way we use our eyes, anything that would take us away from being totally true, |
| 1:06.5 | totally faithful to our spouse. Yeah, I agree. It's like your spouse is the only source of like physical |
| 1:12.4 | intimacy and that kind of sexual intimacy should only come from yourself. So anything apart from that |
| 1:17.2 | is not practicing churnogamy. Right. Right. So if somehow I let my eyes wonder and start looking at |
| 1:23.2 | women or mentally undressing someone or you let your thought life go somewhere or you look at pornography |
| 1:28.9 | a number of different places you can go that is taking it away from your spouse and that's what we're |
| 1:33.6 | talking about here not just staying away from those things that just aren't the best for us yeah definitely |
| 1:39.4 | it's like what so many people will say like it's okay if I look as long as I don't touch but it's like |
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