Gaimandor

You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown

Christianity has glorified marriage more than any other religion: and nearly all the greatest love poetry in the world has been produced by Christians. If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, “Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,” they may mean “the state into which the sexual

If you commit a sexual sin, you have used your body as an instrument of unrighteousness, and consequently, you have allowed sin to reign in your mortal body. If you commit a sexual sin with another person, the two of you become one flesh, according to 1 Corinthians 6:15-16.

When the upset partner realizes they caused hurt they try to retract their rejection and accept, because accepting the sex in order to comfort their partner would not be creating a burden or earn resentment, but now it’s too late and the wounded partner lashes out with their own secondary rejection.

Consider, for instance, the many ways in which hostility between partners regularly interferes with sexual arousal and performance. It’s probably universal that when our partner is hostile, we feel rejected and vice versa. Intimate relationships sensitize people to rejection, and rejections regularly occur in most intimate relationships.

Rather than stating their own need for intimacy, each partner has tried offering sex to the other as a means of making up when their partner seems upset at them.

14 For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant. 15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.