Returning to a Godly Perspective on Sex and Romance, Part 8
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Sexual secrets can rob your marriage of intimacy. The good news is, bringing a secret into the light can start your healing journey. John and Greg explain how to tell your spouse about a sexual struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
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| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | On the outside, on the surface, things may look good in your marriage, but underneath you're struggling. |
| 0:48.5 | It may be because you have a sexual secret. |
| 0:51.0 | And if you do, I'm so glad you tuned in. I'm John Fuller along with |
| 0:55.5 | Dr. Greg Smalley and let me ask you Greg how often and you see a lot of couples but |
| 1:00.5 | how often do you see couples who are struggling with sexuality in their marriage, |
| 1:05.3 | with intimacy, and yet they can't quite bring themselves, one or both of them, to admit that's |
| 1:11.9 | the problem. |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, so often. |
| 1:15.0 | I mean, I think all of us are probably dealing with an issue around sexuality. |
| 1:20.7 | I mean, this might be a pornography addiction. it could be maybe you've dealt with |
| 1:24.9 | infidelity a past sexual trauma I mean this is a very fallen world and we've |
| 1:30.8 | been exposed to a lot. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, I think the fear for couples, why it's really hard to talk about this or to bring this up |
| 1:38.0 | is the fear is that if I share this, now you're seeing the real me. |
| 1:43.0 | So now I'm being super vulnerable and that's risky because now you've seen all my flaws |
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