Welcome to Mary's day podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife, Karen. This podcast

exists to help every married couple succeed in marriage. And we're talking today about

the secrets of lifelong passion and intimacy. Those are the two big words in marriage that

everybody wants to experience passion and intimacy. We're going to be talking to you about

how you can experience that. We first of all, there's going to go to a teaching here

just a few minutes. First of all, we're going to read some questions from you guys and

answer them. And let me begin, Karen. This is a question. How can you express your love

for your spouse and also satisfy your sexual needs? If your husband refuses to engage

in physical affection or sex, I'm ashamed that he won't be intimate with me.

Gosh, that's a load of question. I would say definitely he'd canceling because there's

a huge blockage because most men, that's not going to be the case. If he is shut you off

physically and sexually, big, big, big warning flag there, and you say, well, how can you

meet your own needs? You really can't. I mean, not in a satisfying way long term is if

your husband has shut you out like that, you got to get counseling. And we've got here

of a marriage today here at Exo Marriage. We have marriage mediators. You can live in

Timbuktu, but they can help you via Zoom or by phone, we're in the Dallas-Fourth Metroplex

area here. So if you're in this area, reach out to us, go on the website there and reach

out to us, but they can help you. You really do need counseling. That's a big deal. And

you just can't live in that environment very long without problems, for a big problem.

Okay. My wife and I have been going through a healing process after she had an affair. It has

been amazing to see God restoring our marriage, but sex is still awkward because of the infidelity.

What can we do to rebuild our intimacy? It'll get better over time. Now, there are great books

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