Spouse

[StCsDavid]

I guess it would not be appropriate to objectify your spouse and see only her nakedness. Lusting for your spouse is sinful…longing for your spouse is beautiful…appreciating your spouse’s body is highly appropriate.

Thankfully, one road my spouse and I have never gone down is the open bathroom policy. My time on the throne is mine alone, and I respect her time as well. I know some couples are perfectly fine walking in on each other in the bathroom. I’m not saying that’s wrong…it’s just not for us.

 

[CuriousInIL]

StCsDavid:

I guess it would not be appropriate to objectify your spouse and see only her nakedness. Lusting for your spouse is sinful…longing for your spouse is beautiful…appreciating your spouse’s body is highly appropriate.

Any concrete advice on how to determine the difference between lusting and longing?

 

[felra]

CuriousInIL:

Any concrete advice on how to determine the difference between lusting and longing?

Do you seperate/disconnect the person and the relationship apart from the sexual desire?

intr.v. longed, long·ing, longs

To have an earnest, heartfelt desire, especially for something beyond reach.

intr.v. lust·ed, lust·ing, lusts

To have an intense or obsessive desire, especially one that is sexual.

Er·os )
n.

1. 
   *]Greek Mythology. The god of love, son of Aphrodite.
   *]often eros Creative, often sexual yearning, love, or desire: “The new playful eros means that impulses and modes from other spheres enter the relations between men and women” (Herbert Gold).
   1. 
      *]Psychiatry. Sexual drive; libido.
      *]The sum of all instincts for self-preservation.
      
      con·ju·gal )adj.
      Of or relating to marriage or the relationship of spouses.