The Four Seasons of Intimacy in Marriage
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Popular marriage coaches Dave and Ashley Willis will help couples increase connection and reduce conflict by identifying what stage of life they’re in and how it impacts the intimate side of their relationship. These stages can include the fun honeymoon period, the sleepless season of having babies, the times when life is incredibly busy, and times when health issues might create barriers to intimacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, marriage coaches Dave and Ashley Willis are going to explain the ups and downs of intimacy in marriage and the importance of maintaining that close connection. |
| 0:12.6 | There is a security that goes deep when your kids know how much you've still got it for their mom, for their dad. |
| 0:20.0 | They love that. Well, thanks for |
| 0:22.4 | joining us today. I'm John Fuller. John, Dave and Ashley Willis have been on this program several |
| 0:27.4 | times, and I think we could call them fan favorites. And I know you're going to enjoy this very |
| 0:33.5 | lively presentation today. And for those who are listening instead of watching on YouTube, |
| 0:39.3 | let me explain the visuals. Dave and Ashley are on a stage with four different chairs |
| 0:44.1 | that represent the four different seasons of intimacy in marriage, which they'll explain in just a |
| 0:50.2 | minute. There's a beach chair, a rocking chair from a nursery, a kitchen bar stool, and a chair |
| 0:56.8 | that is broken. That's the setup. I should add that Dave and Ashley are prolific authors, |
| 1:02.9 | and they have a new podcast called Marriage on the Line. Yeah, and we'll link over to that in the show |
| 1:07.8 | notes. Here now, Dave and Ashley Willis speaking at a marriage conference |
| 1:11.5 | at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. And we're starting after their opening remarks. |
| 1:17.6 | And as you might have guessed, this content is not going to be suitable for younger listeners. |
| 1:24.5 | And so we want to talk in this session about some of the wrong messages about sex that our |
| 1:29.8 | culture has tried to get us to believe through the broken views of sex that were taught |
| 1:35.4 | through entertainment or what passes for entertainment and through the baggage that we bring |
| 1:40.2 | into marriage. |
| 1:40.9 | And we believe every person has some form of sexual baggage, even if you entered marriage a virgin just because of mindsets we had or insecurities we had or beliefs that |
| 1:49.4 | were maybe incongruent with what God says about sex. So we all bring all this in. This is the one area |
| 1:55.7 | where the enemy would like to attack your mindset and your marriage more than anything else. If he can |
| 1:59.6 | cause division within |
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