When My Heart Shuts Down in the Bedroom, Losing Friends After Leaving a Toxic Relationship, My Toddler Thinks Confession Is a Wedding | ACW335

Ask Christopher West

Theology of the Body Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

How can I open my heart emotionally to my wife during sex after a history of porn and brokenness?
How do I heal and forgive after losing friends and community following a controlling relationship and new engagement?
Is there a Theology of the Body insight in my toddler mistaking confession for a wedding?

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0:00.0	From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is The Ask Christopher West podcast.
0:15.5	Welcome back to another episode, everybody.
0:17.7	Yes, hi, listeners.
0:19.1	Should I share my tale of woe, Wendy?
0:21.9	Oh, my goodness.
0:23.4	There are some who will be quite interested in the day you had recently.
0:27.7	This was unprecedented in all of my travel history, which is rather extensive over a 30-year
0:35.5	stretch.
0:36.1	A lot of travel.
0:37.6	I was headed to Portland.
0:41.5	I was supposed to be going first to Denver, Colorado last Friday, to do an interview with Chris
0:48.2	Tefanek.
0:50.9	And I'm sitting on the runway.
0:52.6	My flight's at 9 o'clock.
0:53.8	I get on my plane at 8.30. I was going to fly to Denver, and then I was going to do the interview. Then I was going to fly to Portland, Oregon to speak at a beautiful Protestant church out there. I've gotten to know the pastor out there who's really beautifully integrated theology, the body, into what he's doing. And that's so exciting for me.
1:11.8	You know, Wendy, when TOB crosses denominational lines.
1:15.9	I was really looking forward to this.
1:18.5	I'd put a lot of prayerful preparation into this trip, working on some new power points and all that good stuff.
1:25.5	So I'm excited to go.
1:26.6	I'm sitting on the plane. I get on the
1:28.1	plane at 8.30. We taxi out and the pilot comes on. We're waiting in this long line. It's about
1:33.3	an hour. It's like, okay, that happens on occasion. You're waiting for about an hour. That does
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