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Is it wrong to refuse sex with someone you are married to?
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<blockquote data-quote="JZ Howard" data-source="post: 64408377" data-attributes="member: 341785"><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']This is my first post ever about this topic. [/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Withholding sex in marriage is a multi-layered dilemma. I know because I have lived in a sex-starved marriage and yearned for intimacy with my wife for 40 of 44 years. After numerous inner struggles and having teetered a handful of times on the brink of divorce over the decades, I am committed to her (a miracle of the Holy spirit) as never before until death-do-us-part.[/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']We have a healthy adult daughter and a teen grandson, and I have worked steadily and provided for us, including a solid middle-class home and 35 years in a warm Jesus-worshipping church. [/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']What I know is [/FONT]</span><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']that while sensuality and spirituality have been separated and even considered mutually hostile by the church (and some insist scripture) for more than 2,000 years, its about time to reinterpret scripture for what it actually says about human sexualitythat sensuality and spirituality are <em>meant</em> to <em>combine</em> and <em>enhance</em> each other. That's the will of God for spouses, I believe.[/FONT]</span><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'][/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT]</span></p><p><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']I hope this helps somebody, as brief as it is, and that it offers hope. We have a God of hope and peace, so seek the God of all comfort who comforts us in all our troubles (2 Cor 1:4).[/FONT]</span><span style="color: black">[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'][/FONT]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JZ Howard, post: 64408377, member: 341785"] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']This is my first post ever about this topic. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Withholding sex in marriage is a multi-layered dilemma. I know because I have lived in a sex-starved marriage and yearned for intimacy with my wife for 40 of 44 years. After numerous inner struggles and having teetered a handful of times on the brink of divorce over the decades, I am committed to her (a miracle of the Holy spirit) as never before until death-do-us-part.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']We have a healthy adult daughter and a teen grandson, and I have worked steadily and provided for us, including a solid middle-class home and 35 years in a warm Jesus-worshipping church. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']What I know is [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']that while sensuality and spirituality have been separated and even considered mutually hostile by the church (and some insist scripture) for more than 2,000 years, its about time to reinterpret scripture for what it actually says about human sexualitythat sensuality and spirituality are [I]meant[/I] to [I]combine[/I] and [I]enhance[/I] each other. That's the will of God for spouses, I believe.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']I hope this helps somebody, as brief as it is, and that it offers hope. We have a God of hope and peace, so seek the God of all comfort who comforts us in all our troubles (2 Cor 1:4).[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT='Verdana','sans-serif'][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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