{"id":3634,"date":"2019-02-25T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/manlytrainingministries\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:02:13","slug":"unfulfilled-sex-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/manlytrainingministries\/2019\/02\/unfulfilled-sex-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Suffer from and Unfulfilled Sex Life Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I think every married couple, no matter man or woman or how long they\u2019ve been married WANTS a fulfilling sex life.<\/p>\n

Like this one old couple who were at an old coffee shop one night and the husband leaned over and asked his wife, \u201cDo you remember that time 50 years ago we went behind this very building where we leaned against the back fence and we\u2026 you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d she says, \u201cI remember it well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The old guy got a twinkle in his eye and said, \u201cHow about we take a stroll around back do it again for old time\u2019s sake?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh Charlie, you old devil, that sounds like a crazy, but good idea!\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, a police officer was having coffee and happened to overhear this conversation and chuckling to himself, he thought:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to see these two old-timers just to keep an eye on them so there\u2019s no trouble.\u201d So he follows them.<\/p>\n

He makes his move<\/h2>\n

The elderly couple walked out slowly, leaning on each other and aided by their canes. Finally, they got to the back of the building and sure enough, the old man made his move and the lady leaned against the fence. The policeman was about to turn away, when suddenly it turned into the most unexpected display of marital fireworks the policeman had ever seen. This went on for many minutes with loud shouts and screaming.<\/p>\n

Finally, they both collapsed on the ground. The policeman was amazed. He thought how all these years he had underestimated every senior citizen he\u2019d ever met. How did they keep the passion alive so long? After giving them a chance to pull themselves together, the policeman decided, \u201cI\u2019ve got to ask them what their secret is.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, as the couple passes, he says to them,<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me, but I have to admit, I just saw that, and I\u2019m wondering what the secret is to keeping that kind of passion in your relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaking, the old man was barely able to reply,<\/p>\n

\u201cFifty years ago, that wasn\u2019t an electric fence.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one way to keep the passion alive! *<\/p>\n

Courtship<\/h2>\n

But in courtship, especially for Christian couples, it seems that keeping the passion alive will be the LEAST of your problems. That\u2019s because couples who take God\u2019s timeless wisdom seriously are often too busy trying NOT to have sex to worry about the quality and quantity of sexual activity AFTER happily ever after.<\/p>\n

So how is it that with those high expectations, it\u2019s almost universal that in just few years, sometimes even weeks AFTER happily ever, that quality and quantity of sex becomes a real issue?<\/p>\n

Why sexual problems?<\/h2>\n

\"\"Why do we have sexual problems? Especially in light of the fact that God created us sexual beings, He made us in his image, MALE and FEMALE? I mean the first thing we learn from scripture is that sex is good and spiritual.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the biblical formula for marriage:<\/p>\n

\u201cA man shall be united with his wife and the two will become one flesh. The two were naked and not ashamed.\u201d (Gen 2:24, 25)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s something so wonderful in this oneness out of sexual duality that Paul is at a loss for words when commenting on this one verse. \u201cThis is a profound mystery\u201d he says. What we can say for sure is that sex is too intense and vulnerable to NOT be contained inside the firm boundaries of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201cmarriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept pure.\u201d (Heb 13:4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have Messed it UP!<\/h2>\n

It doesn\u2019t take a genius to realize how many ways we\u2019ve invented to mess this up; ways which bring deep, deep wounds. But even for couples without such wounds, sex still can be a challenge. Why? Well, there\u2019s the stain of sin, which mars God\u2019s good design. And every couple finds out sooner or later, that men and women are wired differently when it comes to sex. We\u2019re not just people with the same thought processes about sex who happen to have different but nicely matching body parts.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the most practical instruction in the Bible about sex encourages selfless understanding and giving, to overcome our differences:<\/p>\n

\u2013 1 Cor 7:2-5 Since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which means, in a sex saturated culture, protecting the sacredness of sex and our own souls means it\u2019s better to be married with a healthy sexual outlet than to try and fight the culture and lose the battle.<\/p>\n

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.<\/p>\n

Sex is fundamental<\/h2>\n

This is saying that sex is not an add on to a marriage for extra credit! It\u2019s a fundamental part of your covenant. In some sense you might say sex defines marriage because it\u2019s the one thing you don\u2019t do with anyone else.<\/p>\n

The wife\u2019s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband\u2019s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.<\/p>\n

People who think Paul is some kind of misogynist should take note that Paul here makes the first statement of sexual equality in the history of the human race! He makes no distinction for gender, both women AND men cede partial control of their bodies to their spouse equally. Wow! If you have issue with this kind of mutual submission, then you have issue with everything Jesus taught us about fulfillment: You do not seek your life to find it, you give UP your life to find it.<\/p>\n

Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent.<\/h2>\n

When it comes to sex, Paul is saying you are your spouse\u2019s only hope at a happy sex life. And sex is part of the \"\"expression of the image of God in them. Deprive them and what are you doing? You are in one sense throwing them to the wolves of an immoral culture. Paul makes the direct connection between sexual fulfillment IN marriage and a decrease in sexual temptation outside of marriage.<\/p>\n

Finally note that Paul makes no nod toward gender here. You may assume that he\u2019s leaning toward male sensibilities, but did you know that in Roman culture in the 1st century it was understood that women were the drivers of sexual lust and couldn\u2019t be trusted alone with the opposite sex? It\u2019s true. In our culture, it\u2019s opposite. So the command in the Bible makes no gender distinction, it\u2019s simply this:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t deny sex from the other.<\/p>\n

Now, this is such critical wisdom we need to spend the rest of our time unpacking it. Today we will talk to the women! On Wednesday be ready to talk about sex with the guys! So girls, listen up!<\/p>\n

FOR HIM SEX CHANGES EVERYTHING<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s build off of general male\/female differences. The first one being the fact that the average married man probably wants more sex with his wife than he gets. According to Jeff and Shaunti Feldman and their survey of over 1000 men and women, 3 out of every 4 men (75%) said they wanted more and better sex than their wives.<\/p>\n

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Which actually means a sizable minority, one in four women, are pining for more. That\u2019s not an insignificant group. For those couples, I recommend a couple of books:<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Gift of Sex , by Clifford and Joyce Penner<\/p>\n

\u2013 A Celebration of Sex, by Douglas Rosenau<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But for today, let\u2019s speak to the majority situation where many husbands want more sex than they\u2019re getting. This is not a shock to most women who have been giggling about men\u2019s obsession with sex since Junior high. As wives, what you may not realize is that your non-synchronized sex lives might be growing into a crisis.<\/p>\n

He stopped asking<\/h2>\n

You might say, \u201cwell, my husband actually stopped asking for sex a while back.\u201d That might be a sign of slowing down with age and synchronizing your desires, OR it might be a sign that he\u2019s withdrawing or growing resentful or worse, starting not to care because he\u2019s too wounded to bring it up. *<\/p>\n

Or maybe you\u2019re not understanding what the big deal is. Isn\u2019t it just a simple, primal urge that he really should be able to do without. It\u2019s not like food! He won\u2019t die without it. And besides, a lot of other primary needs get in the way\u2026 like sleep and the late show.<\/p>\n

Well here\u2019s the insight that might surprise some women. While popular opinion says that men are just one giant sex gland, animalistic and sex is just a physical release,\u00a0 the stats on this say this impression is wrong \u2013 dead wrong.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the truth:<\/h2>\n

Sex for most men is deeply attached to their emotional well being and making love to his wife: assures him, builds his confidence, salves his loneliness, and delights his soul in ways that mere sexual release cannot produce.<\/p>\n

Did you hear that? At a most basic level, your husband wants to be wanted. He wants to be desired. He wants his wife not only to \u201cput up with sex\u201d, but to actually desire him sexually. It\u2019s a core need in a man. And if he doesn\u2019t feel it, he feels wounded.<\/p>\n

Check this out:<\/h2>\n

The following scenario was put in front of men: you are sexually gratified continually, now how important is it to you to ALSO feel wanted and desired by your wife?:<\/p>\n

\u2013 66% said feeling wanted and desired is VERY important<\/p>\n

\u2013 31% said important<\/p>\n

\u2013 Less than 3% said it didn\u2019t matter so long as there was enough frequency.<\/p>\n

Are you hearing this? 97% of men said getting enough sex wasn\u2019t enough. Some of you have said, \u201cwell, if it\u2019s that important, he should ask more.\u201d But you see, this is why he stops asking! He doesn\u2019t want to \u201cwear you down\u201d. He wants to feel wanted. If he succeeds in \u201cwearing you down\u201d, he doesn\u2019t get what he REALLY wants.<\/p>\n

Another question was asked:<\/h2>\n

Imagine you get all the sex you want, but it\u2019s obligatory, and she is not satisfied or she just wants to meet your need, will you be satisfied? Guess how many one track mind, sex obsessed men, said that would OK? 25%. The vast majority said they would feel empty if their wife wasn\u2019t engaged or satisfied.<\/p>\n

Those that WOULD take sex on those terms often say it\u2019s only so they wouldn\u2019t be tempted to have an affair.<\/p>\n

Maybe you need a change in view, from thinking that your husband\u2019s sexual craving is at best a simple desire he should just be able turn off, or at worst a insensitive demand. To thinking that it is, in fact, an expression of deep emotional need.<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t that change things? Imagine that your husband decided that your need for communication and emotional intimacy was kinda dumb and immature. I mean he knows it\u2019s there, but he decides that you don\u2019t need it to live and you should just get over it and understand that he has other things to do than listen or talk to you. Think of how wounding that would be.<\/p>\n

The Wound<\/h2>\n

Women, some men feel THAT wounded, emotionally right now. As legitimately wounded as you would feel, that\u2019s how he feels when he\u2019s rebuffed time after time. Rejected. Depressed. Because he wants to feel wanted.<\/p>\n

So what can you do? As we discovered, obligatory sex, won\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n

HEAR HIS HEART.<\/h2>\n

The next time he floats a trial balloon to test the waters, hear the heart behind it. Don\u2019t hear, \u201cI\u2019m an animal and I have a physical need, please meet it.\u201d Everyone understands how demeaning that would be. But 97% of men don\u2019t feel that way. Honestly, if orgasm was all it was, they could just masturbate, but they don\u2019t WANT to. What they WANT is intimacy with you! You desiring him makes him feel like a champion. You\u2019re not satisfying his body so much as feeding his soul.<\/p>\n

GET INVOLVED.<\/h2>\n

Sometimes, you make the first move. Here\u2019s the word: seduce him. (Ruth) This touches that, \u201cdoes she desire me\u201d button he has that cuts so close to his sense of worth.<\/p>\n

MAKE SEX A PRIORITY.<\/h2>\n

If you were a Star Trek fan, you might remember the episode where Data the robot gets a human girlfriend. Data is a perfect boyfriend, but soon she\u2019s not happy. She kisses him at one point and asks, what were you thinking about, right then? And Data replies, I was charting the path through the nebula, recalculating the engines output, factoring how much pressure to apply to your lips, redoing the matrix for\u2026 she stopped him realizing at that moment why this wasn\u2019t going to work. She could never be his priority. He had too many things on his computer mind.<\/p>\n

Women, this is how men often feel about you, like they only get a tiny, little space in your spaghetti brains. Kids, work, ministry, laundry, will we even make the top 10? We know you need to be thinking about sex to be ready for it, yet the fact that you don\u2019t prioritize brain space for it says \u201cI\u2019M not a priority to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

I get it!<\/h2>\n

One woman finally got this and wrote: I felt that my day was all about need meeting for my husband and at the end of the day I was done need meeting. Then God prompted me, \u201care the needs you meet for your husband really for him?\u201d I realized that all the things that occupied my brain were things I prioritized for me, not him. If the kids weren\u2019t primped, he didn\u2019t complain. If the kitchen floor wasn\u2019t mopped, he\u2019d do it. I soon realized I was saying \u201cno\u201d the one thing he asked of me. It was MY plan for the day that got priority and this was more about me than him.<\/p>\n

I understand the difficulty for your integrated brains to add one more \u201cnon-essential\u201d thing. But this one thing connects to everything else for him. It opens up wells of emotion and response in him that you might have been craving. And all it takes from you really to start, is to have compassion and understand the way he\u2019s wired.<\/p>\n

Come back Wednesday when we will Talk to the guys about what sex means for the girls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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