another Florida maroon equating marriage with sex. the more peopel stay married, the less importance they put on sex. it takes more than getting one’s rocks off to maintain a marriage, and this trivializes that.
You aren’t my wife by any chance? ;-)
As a brother in Christ, I'm willing to fall under Church discipline.
Surely you are a woman. This sermon is directed at YOU, tootsie.
Your spouse must be a real happy camper. We just celebrated our 29th anniversary and physical intimacy is a more important part of our relationship than ever.
If, in your view, it's about getting one's rocks off you're totally missing the point.
In John 17, when Jesus prays this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. He's using the same root word that's used in Genesis where it says Adam knew Eve, and she bore him a son.
Around our house we've spent the past 29 years as two becoming one ... we're much closer to that now than we were when we started. Sex isn't the only part of that, but it's one of the most important parts.
Marriage is about companionship, friendship, partnership, children, etc.
However, the longer I’m married, the more interested I am in sex... Its good thing for my wife that I was over 40 when she married me or we’d never make it to work on time!
yep, they should call themselves the irrelevant church because that is what they are. There are many scriptures that implore us to overcome our physical and sensual natures and if that’s not done we are very hard pressed to become patient in all things. The church as a whole has fallen down so badly, as Americans suffer. Here’s one church that hasn’t and actually teaches a be still silent prayer that brings people towards true salvation...fhu.com
>>it takes more than getting one’s rocks off to maintain a marriage, and this trivializes that.<<
I agree with the concept, but don’t kid yourself. It can be just as bad to trivialize sex - and the need for it that God gave us. My wife and I love “Song of Solomon”.
sex is PART of marriage. It should be encouraged in marriage.
Then again remember all the little old ladies who decried the arrival of viagra because they husbands wanted sex again.
Of course the dirty little secret in divorce courts is how much sexual absence causes divorces.
uHHH....It is not about getting ones rocks off. Me and the wife are enjoying a lot better sex life now than in our earlier years. When we were younger we were not getting along too well and not having sex as often. Now that we have repaired our EMOTITIONAL side we have been having lots and lots of sex and could NOT BE HAPPIER. (not yelling emphasizing.
The emotional and physical go hand in hand regardless of what anyone says.
Besides it is fun. You should try it.
I’ve been married nearly 17 years (in a row—to the same guy) and our sex life is far more enjoyable now than it has been at any other point in our marriage. Keeps getting better. In fact, I’m willing to bet that a lot of marriages go south because too little importance is placed on physical intimacy.
Unfortunately, it's more like "...the less importance wives put on sex". The husband is generally still about as interested after 20 years as he was in the first year
A wife whose husband puts less importance on sex with her, is likely to find out that the reason is because he has found other outlets
Infrequent sex is probably the #1 reason men lose interest in their wives.
True, but it takes children to make any Curch, Culture or Society to endure... and you don't get those without having some fun. God didn't say, "Go for, be unfruitful and frigid".