Nadie, my name is Mark. Her names. Grace. And we're here with a real marriage podcast.

And we have a special four episodes dealing with largely sex in marriage. And Grace, you picked

four questions that came in and you tell me and we'll jump in to whatever the first question is.

Okay.

First question is how do you reconcile and maintain physical closeness in marriage when there's the emotional distance?

Is it possible for a woman to be physically, sexually intimate if she's not emotionally

connected to her husband?

It's possible, but it's probably not actual sexual connectedness.

It's more of an act out of obligation or just, you know, kind of trying to

pretend. It's important for a wife to feel the emotional connection. So that's the number one thing

to try and figure out. So you recognize that there's emotional distance. That's good. Now you've got to

ask a few more questions

to keep dialing it down to why is there emotional distance? What's underneath the emotional

distance? Is there unforgiveness? Bitterness? Is there resentment? Is there something that you're

hiding? Is there something that you're just not wanting to talk about? You're afraid it's going to blow up in discussion.

Find out what's underneath the emotional distance.

Pray together so that you can start to talk about that and figure out what that is.

And that's where it's hard.

It's hard to answer questions without sitting down with the couple.

So like what is causing the emotional distance? Like Gray said, is it? It's hard. It's hard to answer questions without sitting down with the couple. Yes.

So, like, what is causing the emotional distance?

Like Gray said, is it, you know, one of you travels a lot for work, so you're not together?

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