When Spouses Have Differing Sexual Desires
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Sex is a wonderful gift for marriage, and yet, it can also be complicated. John and Greg address how physical intimacy is a top issue many couples fight over. You'll also hear Jim Daly talk with Shaunti Feldhahn and Dr. Michael Sytsma about how couples can work through scenarios where one spouse wants sex more than the other. Finally, Erin Smalley will offer a helpful perspective on how to ask your spouse for sex.
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| 0:00.0 | Lonnie and Kaye were high school sweethearts, but over time the never-ending conflict and their loss of love threatened to tear their marriage apart. |
| 0:11.0 | When we filled out our forms with focus on the family, they asked us if we believed in a miracle if we were willing to allow a miracle to happen. And, you know, with all my heart, that's what I wanted. |
| 0:23.0 | Lonnie and Kay attended Hope Restored where focused counselors help heal and restore broken relationships, |
| 0:30.0 | giving husbands and wives godly hope for the future. |
| 0:34.0 | I guess what I'd say is I cherish her now more than I did before |
| 0:38.0 | and I have a way that I can communicate to her |
| 0:41.0 | that I did not have before and focus on the families given me that ability. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Jim Daly. Working together we can save more families like Kay and Lonnie's every month. |
| 0:51.0 | Become a friend to focus on the family by calling 800 a family or donate at focus on the family. |
| 0:58.0 | dot com slash family. While Sex in Marriage is one of the great gifts that God gives to a couple, |
| 1:09.7 | and one of the most enjoyable parts of marriage for many. It can also be an area where couples face |
| 1:14.9 | some of the strongest challenges and even disagreements. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and |
| 1:20.0 | Aaron Smalley who lead the focus marriage team and Greg there are stats out there |
| 1:24.7 | statistics about how common it is for couples to fight about sexuality and I'm |
| 1:30.1 | guessing the numbers are pretty significant. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:33.3 | I know roughly about 43% of women and 31% of men |
| 1:37.5 | experience some level of sexual dysfunction. |
| 1:40.5 | So that's going to lead to a lot of frustration, probably to a lot of difficult conversations, arguments in our country about 15 to 20 percent of married couples are sexless, so they're hardly ever having sex. |
| 1:55.2 | So again, you can imagine just the breeding ground for arguments, even on our assessment |
| 2:02.4 | that we talk about all the time here. |
| 2:04.8 | The focus marriage assessment. |
| 2:05.9 | That sex is the number two thing that people most struggle with. |
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