Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Achieving Love and Intimacy in Marriage

"Achieving Love and Intimacy in Marriage"

[Music: That’s the Story of Love]

This time of year a lot of us are choosing gifts for people we love. But sometimes the gift that’s hardest to give is of ourselves. The holidays can tear couples apart. And instead of enjoying each other, too often we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed. I’m Sarah McConnell and today on With Good Reason, a marriage and family expert tells us many marriages in danger of falliung apart could actually thrive if more of us learned that there is an art to love and intimacy.

Later on today’s show, with all the emphasis on becoming supple and fit, its easy to forget that Yoga is an ancient spiritual practice:

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But first, Russ Crescimanno is a professor emeritus at Piedmont Virginia Community College. He’s been teaching a course on “Marriage and Family Relations” for 40 years and has recently published a book called “A Relationship is a Living Thing: It Must Be Nurtured to Stay Alive and Grow. He says most of us are never really taught how to sustain a rich and lasting marriage:

(Marriage interview)

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Russ Crescimanno teaches Marriage and Family Relations at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Coming up next: the ancient origins of Yoga.

Close to twenty million Americans now practice some form of Yoga. The practice comes from ancient India, but exploded into the western world in the 60’s, and has grown in popularity since then. Graham Schweig of Christopher Newport University is a yoga scholar and practitioner. He recently published a new translation of the sacret text, the Bhagavad Gita,

(Interview Graham Schweig)

Graham Schweig is a professor of Religious Studies at Christopher Newport University. He’s the author and translator of “hagavad-gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song.”

Music: Elliot composition

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You’re listening to With Good Reason. Elliot Majerczyk, who composed and performed the closing music for this show, and Jesse Dukes are our associate producers. Andrew Wyndham is our executive producer. Nancy King creates our feature capsules. Jeannie Palin handles listener services and Lydia Wilson is our publicity coordinator. We had help this week from Perry Smith of WHRV. With Good Reason is produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. For a free copy of this show on CD, call 877-451-5098. I'm Sarah McConnell, Thanks for listening.