News — please your wife

Reposted and used with permission from Awesome Marriage

Often when I am talking with couples they use the words “intimacy” and “sex” interchangeably.  In the past as a counselor, I have done the same thing. The problem is that “intimacy” and “sex” are not the same thing and I needed to know how to communicate that distinction clearly if I was to expect couples to understand the differences. 

Intimacy can certainly lead to sex but it can stand on its own as something that draws a couple closer together. Communication can be intimate. Praying together can be...