Sexual Intimacy & Family Life

This week's lesson stimulated a lot of interesting discussion about something very important in married life: sex. Although, contrary to popular belief, this is not the most important thing in a marriage. It's not even top 5. Nonetheless, as Bro. Williams said, depending on how your sex life is going it can determine how the relationship is going in lots of other areas. A huge problem in the world today is sexual sin. People don't give sexual intimacy the respect it deserves and abuse their power to participate in it outside of marriage. Personally, I believe that outside of marriage, sex doesn't make a relationship better; it only complicates it. It can lead to all sorts of trust issues and jealousy when that level of intimacy doesn't match the level of commitment. Something I took away from this week that really stood out to me was the levels of intimacy that coincide with levels of commitment. Intercourse only falls under the commitment of marriage or it throws off all sorts of other factors in a relationship such as trust, and reliance. Another thing I learned is that in a marriage, you pretty much have the freedom to behave how you want in the bedroom as long as both spouses are okay and aren't being degraded.