Intimacy in Marriage

Sex should only be reserved until you are married. By waiting to have sex until you are married there is more of a commitment and not sliding into a relationship like cohabitation. Casual sex fails to fulfill our intimacy needs. In a marriage, sexual desires reflect the human need for love and union. A key part of having a successful marriage is to have sexual satisfaction with your spouse. The relationship between sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction is one mutual influence. In “His Needs, Her Needs,” states that the number one need for men in a marriage is sexual fulfillment and for women it’s affection. While showing intimacy communicating to your spouse what you love and comfortable is essential in a martial relationship. From our reading it states, “We can have an intimacy without sex but we cannot have satisfying sex without intimacy.”