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Ask Christopher West

Wendy’s Testimony, Rejected in the Bedroom, Haunted by Our Wedding Photos| ACW337

Ask Christopher West

Theology of the Body Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9549 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

    1. I missed the 2020 online conference and Wendy’s talk that deeply interests me. Also, I couldn’t attend the Mary course you personally recommended—will there be another chance?
    2. I long for intimacy, but my husband rejects my advances. It revives deep insecurities and leaves me lonely and ashamed. How do I carry this cross with love?
    3. Seeing our wedding photos reminds us of how broken we were. How can we reclaim joy and see beauty in our beginning again?


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0:00.0

From Theology of the Body Institute, this is The Ask Christopher West podcast.

0:10.0

Hey, Wendy. Yeah. Tell everybody what you remembered remembered that we forgot. Oh, right.

0:21.4

Yes.

0:22.0

So there was a few episodes ago, there was a banter cliffhanger that has been hanging because we forgot.

0:32.6

I'm so sorry.

0:34.3

If any of you listened to that episode and thought, well, this is ridiculous.

0:39.2

This is really a long wait. Here we are. Wait, wait no more.

0:43.0

And it's not like it's going to be some stunning thing that you couldn't live without.

0:47.6

We could have just gone on with the podcast and forgotten about it forever.

0:51.7

But you remembered, so we have to do it now.

0:54.1

It's true.

0:55.1

So it was from, we had been talking about when I learned things about the way highways are numbered

1:02.1

and like what indicates a beltway and a spur.

1:07.7

So you had something occurred to you to share with our listeners but to save.

1:11.6

I'm thinking about anybody who might be tuning in to our podcast for the very first time.

1:16.0

Right.

1:16.6

Wait, I thought this was about theology, the body and stuff, and they're talking about highways.

1:21.9

What?

1:24.1

Sorry about that.

1:24.8

If you are new, this is just our little banting section at the beginning where we talk about random things before we get into the questions that people submit.

1:34.2

So I am embarrassed to say this.

1:38.2

But can I say something before you say whatever you have to say?

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