Hey friends welcome back to summertime on the naked marriage podcast where we're keeping it steamy all summer today in particular

because we're talking about one of your favorite topics sex and the naked nation that's all of you guys who listen to the podcast, the

Naked Nation loves the sex episodes and we... The sex opposed...

How do you know? Sex, sex episodes? See you're good at that. Sex episodes. So this is one of those and that. That's right. Yeah, we're excited. Actually especially she gets extra excited about these sex episodes. He loves whenever we get to have a conversation about it, he wants to tee me up for talking

about all the different things about sex.

And so today is no different.

We are talking about sex.

I won't even tell you exactly what we're going to say about it,

but you know it's going to be interesting.

So let's dive in.

Yeah, painful sex is something we've talked about in the past, but in this series on sex to start the new year.

We wanted to revisit it because so many people experience this.

And like a lot of the topics we've addressed so far it's not

talked about enough and so people that are struggling with it are often struggling in

isolation yeah and we just want this to be a safe place for you to be able to talk through work through whatever struggles you might be dealing with in marriage and even in sex specifically.

So painful sex can be a variety of things.

The most common is something called vaginismus, which is something that the woman experiences, usually from the base of the muscles at the floor of the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, The

The groin, it's called the pelvic floor.

And the pelvic floor is that group of muscles that when it's tight it can create extra pain for the woman it can make it difficult for the husband to penetrate

It can make pain just hurt and feel awkward and there are physical therapists that specialize in pelvic floor issues.

There's nothing wrong with you.

You're not defective if you're experiencing this.

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