88:Money and Intimacy with Marriage Puzzle
There are so many parallels between money and intimacy when it comes to marriage. For many people, money represents security. When money issues crop up, it can threaten our ability to trust our spouse. Issues revolving around spending habits in a marriage can...
87: Healing From Pornography with Zach & Darcy Spafford
You’re about to meet my guests on today’s episode, Zach and Darcy Spafford. Zach used to struggle with habitual pornography use and Darcy struggled with trying to figure out what to do with her feelings of hurt and mistrust. After applying certain tools...
86: Initiating Sex
Every sexual encounter requires at least one of you to initiate. Without SOMEONE initiating, there’s no sexual encounter. Initiating sex can be a very powerful way to communicate love and desire to your spouse. Initiating is a powerful bid for connection. It’s a way...
85: When Emotional Intimacy Doesn’t Come Easy For Men
I'm interested in doing a podcast episode primarily for men about understanding intimacy, especially if it wasn't modeled in your home growing up. To be clear, I don't mean “intimacy” as a euphemism for sex. I mean Intimacy as in relational closeness: a willingness to...
84: When the Higher Desire Spouse is Anxious For Sex
In every marriage, there is a spouse with higher desire for sex and a spouse with lower desire for sex. In this episode, I'll talk about the benefits of being higher or being lower desire. As the high desire spouse in my marriage, I know what it's like to feel anxious...
83: Q & A About Sex & Intimacy (Part 2)
For this week’s episode, we continue a Q&A session with Jenny Rose about sex and intimacy. Jenny is a family lifestyle influencer. She asked some questions from her audience that I tackle in last week’s and this week’s episode, such as: How do you balance time...
82: Q & A About Sex & Intimacy (Part 1)
This episode is unique! Jenny, an influencer known as @princessturnedmom from Instagram reached out to me and asked if she could do a podcast takeover and ask me some questions from her audience. How fun! This Q&A session is part one of two where we...
81: The Good Guy’s Guide to Great Sex with Sheila & Keith Gregoire
Today’s podcast is for the husbands out there that want to make sex great. There’s far more to just the mechanics and geometry of sex to being a good lover. There’s romance, creating exciting erotic contexts, sharing mental loads, and much more that go into making...
80: When You Don’t Feel Validated By Your Spouse
It’s normal to seek validation from our spouse in marriage. By validation I mean to get a sense of our legitimacy as a person and a spouse, such as being told we’re sexy enough, pretty enough, and desirable. And it’s normal to seek that validation. But what do you do...