398 - Rebuilding Marital Trust w/ Matthew & Joanna Raabsmith

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we delve into the emotional journey of couples healing from betrayal. We’re joined by Matthew and Joanna Raabsmith, relationship experts and authors, who share insights from their work on the Intimacy Pyramid—a framework designed to help couples rebuild trust, connection, and intimacy after a betrayal. We explore the different stages of healing, from honesty and emotional safety to full intimacy, and how this process varies for betraying spouses, betrayed partners, and the couple as a whole. We discuss common roadblocks couples face and how they can overcome them. Matthew and Joanna offer practical steps couples can take right now to start healing, as well as encouragement for anyone who feels stuck or hopeless on their journey to restoration.

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0:00.0	Hello there, good listener, and welcome to the Pure Desire podcast. I'm your host, Nick
0:09.9	Stumbo, and this is your place for a biblically based and clinically informed approach to healing
0:14.7	from betrayal and breaking free from compulsive sexual behaviors. Today is episode 398, and here joining me as my co-host in this series is Mr. Rodney Wright.
0:25.8	Rodney, welcome back to the program.
0:28.0	Thank you, Nick.
0:28.9	It's always good to be with our PD listeners and be on the podcast.
0:33.3	Enjoy it.
0:33.9	Yeah, good to see you, my friend.
0:35.3	You're looking bright and sunny.
0:37.4	I know you're down in
0:37.9	Mexico, correct? We are. We're on the sea of Cortez and just trying to do some good work
0:43.5	down here in the winter. All of us living in the rainy northwest or, you know, throughout the
0:49.1	frigid Midwest are envious and hope we get to come visit you someday.
0:55.2	Okay. Well, I'm not the booking agent. I'm the inviting agent, but you have to work through Tracy on that because I got vetoed on that. I got too many friends, she said.
1:04.0	Great. Well, today is part two of a three-part series. We're doing on healthy relationships, healthy marriages.
1:11.9	And we had the privilege of having on with us the co-authors of the book Building True Intimacy, Creating a
1:17.5	Connection that Stands the Test of Time, Matthew and Joanna Rabsmith. And for those who don't know
1:23.1	the Rabsmiths, I think they're in for a real treat. We had a great conversation today with
1:27.4	them, Rodney. Yeah, they're in for a real treat. We had a great conversation today with them, Rodney.
1:28.7	Yeah, they're really gifted and articulate well and what they've built in this intimacy
1:35.0	paramed you're going to learn about and how they're helping couples take steps forward,
1:40.0	not just getting back what they had, but getting something they'd never had, is really a gift.
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