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Welcome to the show. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Erin, who lead the marriage team here.

Aaron, let's start off really quick here on this show. When couples get married, many of them, I think, at least I did, feel like that will take care of sexual temptation.

Once I have an appropriate way to engage sexually, I won't be tempted anymore.

But that's not really the case.

That is not the case, John.

You think about our culture, it's very sexualized.

There's pornography, and it's very accessible.

And depending on the extent of exposure prior to marriage, it's going to be at different levels that we're still tempted.

If there's somebody who's been exposed to a lot of pornography, it changes the brain.

And so it's important to talk about these things prior to marriage as well as throughout marriage to go, okay, what are we, how are we battling these temptations? Because it's very

normal to experience attraction because that's how we're wired. God made us, but it's very

normal to have sexual attraction. It's all in how we battle that. When you, if someone sees an

attractive individual of the opposite sex, are you looking and lingering and,

you know, what's happening in your brain? Are you taking thoughts captive? And do you have other

people in your life that are really walking with you through this, including your spouse?

Your spouse is not your accountability partner, but are you having conversations about this and what are we doing about it?

Well, let's turn now to a conversation focused president Jim Daly had with Jerry Jenkins.

And long before he wrote the wildly successful Left Behind novels, Jerry had written a book about

marriage called Hedges, Loving Your Marriage Enough to Protect It.

And he's got some great insights about sexual temptation even for a married couple.

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