How to Handle Mismatched Sex Drives in Marriage | Ep. 612

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Most couples are not going to be completely aligned with sex drive. There are a lot of factors that can cause this, but there are also a lot of solutions!

Today we want to equip you to have a productive approach to making your sex life the best it can be in marriage.

We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.

Episode highlights include:

Why is it so hard to have a productive conversation about sex?
Should the lower-drive spouse “just do it” for the spouse’s sake? Why or why not?
Why respecting your wife’s drive level helps her feel sexy
Ways to respect your spouse’s drive

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.
0:09.9	I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.
0:13.4	On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.
0:17.0	Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.
0:21.8	His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.
0:29.5	Mismatched sex drive is a very common issue that couples face in marriage and it leads to
0:34.8	frustration, tension, and conflict.
0:37.1	So today Dr. Kim is going to share
0:38.6	how he counsels couples in this situation. Sex is one of those things. It's always on the top of
0:43.5	the lists of issues that couples face. So today we're going to equip you to address this aspect of it
0:49.1	head on so that you can find healthy and effective ways to handle it together.
0:59.8	So, Dr. Kim, how often are couples mismatched in terms of their sex drive?
1:02.8	And how often are they doing a good job of talking about that?
1:07.0	I think there's a lot of mismatch at times like that. I think, and sometimes it can depend on the season they're in.
1:11.9	But so I think at some time or or another people are going to experience that maybe maybe the first part of marriage
1:17.2	when you know it could be that you feel like oh man we're both on the same page all the time
1:22.2	with that and then maybe something happens child those kind of things but the some research I looked at said that between 10 and 20% of couples will deal with that at any given time.
1:35.8	And so you're not alone.
1:37.5	It doesn't happen to everybody all the time.
1:39.2	But I think just in most couples, I don't know.
1:42.2	I've ever had a couple that said that sex drive was exactly the
1:45.3	same. There's always that difference in. And so then I think you've got that, just some of the male
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