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So often when couples first get married is common to experience physical intimacy on a regular, frequent basis,

but sometimes there's a season where that can't happen. What do you do then? I'm John Fuller here in the studio with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron.

They lead the Focus Marriage Department, and we're going to hear a clip now from

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Jim spoke with Sherry Mueller and Aaron about working through

times where physical intimacy just isn't happening a lot. Aaron, in that context, I think it's

healthy to talk about God's design for sex. I think with couples that are dealing with this issue or the reverse where the male, the husband's sex drive, is much higher than the women's.

You know, along with finances, this is always the top one or two thing that could push a marriage apart to the point of divorce.

What is God's design for sex?

He created it.

We didn't make it up.

Yes.

And this is supposed to be a gift.

And even at that, we kind of put our hands over our mouth and our ears.

And yeah, it's a gift, but it's the Christmas present.

Nobody talks about.

Yeah.

So often at marriage events, we begin seeing this pattern of these sweet ladies

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