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Physical intimacy is a vital component of a growing relationship with your spouse,

but so many couples struggle with that. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Aaron

and Greg Smolley. They lead our focus on the Family Marriage Department and Aaron,

you do a lot of marital counseling. And when someone reveals that there's a

sexual struggle in their relationship, how often do you find that they're not

even talking about sex to begin with? So often couples will come in and they're

they do their best. They're trying to talk about it, but they don't really know

how to talk about it. And typically what happens is they end up getting stuck in

that well-worn pathway that cycle. When they're both triggered and things are

escalated and that's when they try to talk about it and they just don't have an

effective conversation or sometimes they're not talking about it at all. And

they're sweeping it under the rug and then their minds are going, you know,

this is really what's going on and their negative beliefs and drawing

conclusions and on and on. And then it just doesn't go well. Yeah. Well, Gary

Thomas and Deborah Fileta sat down with Jim Daley to address some of this. And in

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