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Why Your Wife Won't Have Sex With You | The Naked Marriage Podcast | Dave & Ashley Willis

Name: Why Your Wife Won't Have Sex With You | The Naked Marriage Podcast | Dave & Ashley Willis
Uploaded: 2024-01-07T17:00:09+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: Transcript excerpt from a podcast episode (Dave & Ashley Willis) discussing marital sexual disconnect: both partners experience legitimate needs and…

7 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a podcast episode (Dave & Ashley Willis) discussing marital sexual disconnect: both partners experience legitimate needs and hurts that feed a negative cycle—husband appears focused on sex and becomes unkind; wife feels unloved and withdraws, reducing intimacy. The exchange emphasizes mutual responsibility and real emotional pain on both sides.

There's this dynamic of, like, you know, a husband who's bitter because sex isn't happening, and so he's not being kind to his wife. Right. And then there's a wife who doesn't really want to have sex because she feels unloved and uncherished by her husband. And, like, he doesn't even want to talk to her. Like, all he cares about is sex. But the thing about it is, when sex isn't happening, it becomes the thing that it appears like all he cares about. Right. And so it's like this cyclical thing where both parties aren't wrong. Like, there's needs, Real.
Legitimate, real needs on both sides.
Right.
Real hurts on both sides.
Yeah.
And it takes both people really being willing to serve the other. And not just in terms of sex. I'm saying, like, as a whole, in marriage, it takes two people with that servant mindset. Like, I want to light my spouse's load. I want to serve. I want to help meet their needs, even if their needs are different than mine.