Sex and Healthy Expectations
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Almost every disappointment in marriage can be traced to an unmet expectation. The same is true about sex. John, Greg and Erin offer some hope to wives who are struggling to enjoy sex. Featuring Mrs. Debra Fileta, and Mr. Gary Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. I think pretty much every disappointment and marriage can be traced to |
| 0:39.2 | an unmet expectation and that applies to sex. The more honest and open you are |
| 0:44.8 | about your expectations as you learn this aspect of the relationship the |
| 0:50.3 | stronger your marriage can be. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Erin |
| 0:55.1 | Smolley and they lead our marriage team here at the ministry. We're going to |
| 0:59.4 | revisit a conversation now with Deborah Fileta and Gary Thomas who have done |
| 1:03.4 | extensive research on sexuality in marriage and here they are now with Jim |
| 1:08.4 | Daley. In addition to that you have something and I'll get to you in a minute |
| 1:11.6 | Gary to give the male response there but this sex expectations it's a play on |
| 1:15.8 | words obviously but what are those sex expectations? You know sex |
| 1:19.7 | expectations are the beliefs that we have going into marriage about what sex |
| 1:24.0 | will be like and many times those beliefs are actually wrong or rooted in unhealthy |
| 1:28.8 | things. Think about how Hollywood shapes our expectations of what sex is going |
| 1:34.3 | to be like. You know it's quick it's easy it's clean and you're snuggling |
| 1:40.0 | up. No regrets totally natural. It just comes so naturally and then when you get |
| 1:45.1 | into marriage and it's not like that or you're not always in the mood or you're |
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