We Need Gender Motivation–Emotional intimacy: Reply to Claire Smith, PART IV
I make a lot about emotional intimacy in marriage in the book, enGendered, calling it the key to a successful marriage. That is because passages like Ephesians 5:22-33, the quintessential marriage passage in the New Testament, describe marriage in those terms (his wife is as close as the husband’s own body, he washes her by word, he who loves his wife …