Welcome to the Naked Marriage Podcast. We are Dave and Ashley and on this podcast we

address the truth about sex, intimacy and lifelong love. And today we're talking about something

that is so hard but so important to talk about and that is how are you supposed to handle

fighting for your marriage alone? So let's dive in.

I thank you guys for joining us on this episode. This is kind of a heavy topic but we know a lot

of folks are in this situation because we get a lot of messages, a lot of emails and thank you

for those of you who write us on Facebook or email us, letting us know what you're going through.

It really helps us shape the episodes and the content that we put out because we want it to be

relevant to where you are that a lot of folks feel like they're fighting alone in their marriage.

And what do we mean by that? We mean when you feel like you're working a lot harder than

than your spouse's work and there could be a lot of reasons for that. We're going to dive into what

some of those reasons could be but we also want this to be an episode where you feel like you're

given hope to keep going but also given some very practical tools to know how to keep going when

you feel alone in your marriage. That's right. When you're fighting alone, you do feel like you're

the only one kind of bearing the burden. And we've talked about in previous episodes about the

Bible verse about carrying each other's burdens and so it can be heartbreaking when you feel like

you're the only one who cares about your marriage. You're fighting alone when you feel like your

spouse is on autopilot and they're not even tending to what's actually going on daily and they're

not really listening and they're not really engaging with you. And you feel like I'm the only one

who cares here and it can be demeaning. It can feel very demeaning because for whatever reason,

whether they're saying cruel things to you or just ignoring you which I think can almost be

worse when there's this silent treatment and there's no connection there in this period of

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