Balance of Intimacy to Marriage
This week’s topic in family relations was how to create a sexually healthy and happy marriage. Now, this is a difficult topic to discuss because usually there is such a taboo on talking about anything of the sexual matter in the church especially in a church environment. When we talk about this matter it most likely sticks to the lines of “sexual acts are sacred and should only happen in the bonds of marriage”. All these statements are ones I would agree with, but because we so strongly believe in abstinence before marriage it has in turn made us not even address the subject and how we should act when it comes time for us to be sexually active. To begin with a healthy sexual relationship with your spouse is not just about how pleasurable the experience is, although still very important, but also about deepening your interpersonal connection with them. Sexual acts have the ability to bond two people together like no other act and that is why we should treat it with the utmost re...