July 7, 2024 — Episode #27
Content note: this episode continues the prior week’s discussion of sexual intimacy in marriage, including pornography addiction, cohabitation statistics, and factors that can hinder physical intimacy between spouses.
Wrapping up their two-week look at sex within marriage, Jerry and Becky turn to what it takes to prepare for and protect sexual intimacy as a couple.
They identify several “spoilers” to intimacy — pornography, demanding work schedules, letting children take over the marriage bed, grief, prolonged separation, workplace or church “isolation” with the opposite sex, career success that breeds contempt, and friendships that blur boundaries. They discuss why couples who cohabitate before marriage statistically divorce more often, the importance of full accountability with passwords and devices, and the value of intentional communication — calls, texts, decompression time — when a spouse’s job keeps them away or drained. They close with Song of Solomon 4:1 and Hebrews 13:4 on marriage and the marriage bed being honored.
Topics discussed:
- “Sexual spoilers”: pornography, work, children, grief, separation, isolation, success, friendship
- Cohabitation before marriage and divorce statistics
- Accountability with devices and passwords
- Decompressing after high-stress jobs before reconnecting
- Long-distance marriages and deployment
- Boundaries with the opposite sex at work and church
- Song of Solomon 4:1 and Hebrews 13:4
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