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Hey friends, Dave and Ashley here. Welcome to the Marriage Minute on the Naked

Marriage Podcast. We're so glad that you're here. And we are doing the Marriage Minute

because sometimes we just don't have time to listen to a full-linked episode. So we want to

give you a little tidbit of marriage encouragement as you go into your weekend. So let's dive in.

In the busy season, I think you need to be open to maybe putting sex on the calendar. So it's happening at a minimum of maybe once a week. We're going to circle Tuesday night. Hopefully we'll do it more, but at least we know we're going to do it then. If you're waiting to get in the mood, you might not get in the mood at all. But if you ask yourself, am I willing to get in the mood? Then it changes the whole dynamic. According to research from our friends, Shanti Felton and Michael Sitesma, that a lot of people,

if not most people, have what's called reactive attraction, meaning they don't get in the mood

until they start the process of foreplay. I think, again, we've

watched too many, like, romantic comedies, and we think if I'm not equally in the mood as my spouse,

then it just shouldn't happen. So many times couples don't even talk about it. And so we start

making assumptions, and they're usually very negative about our spouse. Like, you know, she always feels that way, or he's just trying to hurt me. She doesn't want to meet my needs, whatever it is, right? And instead, we need to just really talk about it and say, hey, it's been a bit since we made love. Like, what about tonight or maybe tomorrow morning? I want to make sure that we're meeting that need in each other. It can be that simple. It can definitely be that simple.

Thank you all so much for joining us for today's Marriage Minute.

We hope that you want to hear more of this,

so please join us on Monday for a full-length episode.

Hope to see you then.

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A rumble?

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