Fight For Love
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Podcast Overview
<p>Fight For Love is a podcast for women navigating the impact of pornography on relationships, faith, and identity.</p><p>Hosted by LifeWay author and founder of Fight For Love Ministries, Rosie Makinney, the podcast began by helping women make sense of betrayal, trauma, and recovery in porn-affected marriages. That foundation remains.</p><p>In Season 5, the conversation widens — asking why pornography has become so normalized and yet so difficult to talk about, why women’s clarity is often dismissed, and how a spiritual battle was reduced to behavior management.</p><p>This is an honest, grounded podcast for women who want more than coping strategies — and are ready for clarity, courage, and truth.</p><p> </p>
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Recent Episodes
March 17, 2026
A Bucket of Hope
<p>We made it to 100 episodes!</p><p>And there’s no better way to mark this moment than by coming back to where it all began—real stories, honest voices, and a bucket full of hope.</p><p>In this special episode, Rosie is joined by familiar voices from the early days—Mindy, Miranda, Ruth, and Marzena—women who have walked the long road of recovery and come out the other side. Not perfectly. Not painlessly. But deeply transformed.</p><p>Together, we ask the question so many of you are quietly carrying:<br>What does recovery actually look like… years later?<br>And perhaps even more importantly:<br>Is there really hope on the other side of this?</p><p>Their answers are not polished or theoretical—they’re lived.</p><p>You’ll hear how recovery becomes less of a checklist and more of a way of life. How honesty, vulnerability, and connection stop feeling like effort and start becoming second nature. How the tools you build in the early days become anchors in the storms you never saw coming.</p><p>Each story is different—some continued in groups, some now lead others—but the thread is the same:<br>healing that overflows.</p><p>Into families.<br>Into churches.<br>Into communities.<br>Across countries.</p><p>This is what it looks like when God does more than just “get you through.”<br>This is what it looks like when He restores, strengthens, and sends you back out with something to give.</p><p>You’ll also hear a gentle but brave invitation:<br>to step out of hiding,<br>to tell your story,<br>and to discover that freedom often begins the moment you walk into the light.</p><p>Because here’s the truth we want you to hold onto—<br>whether you’re at day one or year ten:</p><p>It gets better.<br>Not easier in every way.<br>But fuller. Stronger. More grounded. More free.</p><p>And you are not alone.</p><p>So wherever you are today—<br>tired, hopeful, unsure, or hanging on by a thread—</p><p>let this episode be your reminder:</p><p>There is hope on the other side. And it’s worth staying for.</p>
March 10, 2026
99. How Kinsey Normalized the Unthinkable
<p><strong>What if some of the most common beliefs about sex today were built on deeply flawed science?</strong></p><p>In this episode of Fight For Love, Rosie Makinney pulls back the curtain on Alfred Kinsey—the researcher whose work helped redefine what the modern world considers “normal” sexual behavior.</p><p>After Freud argued that repression was dangerous, Kinsey arrived with something even more persuasive: statistics. His reports claimed to reveal what Americans were really doing behind closed doors. The results were explosive. Behaviors once considered unthinkable suddenly looked common—and once something appears common, culture begins to treat it as normal.</p><p>But there’s a side of this story that most people have never heard.</p><p>In this episode, Rosie walks you through the disturbing and controversial foundations behind Kinsey’s research—data drawn from prison populations, sex offenders, and underground sexual networks that somehow came to define “normal” human behavior. You’ll hear why critics across multiple disciplines have questioned his methods for decades, and why the consequences of those studies still echo through conversations about pornography, sexual empowerment, and even childhood sexuality today.</p><p>If you’ve ever wondered why modern sexual norms feel so radically different from previous generations, or why restraint is sometimes portrayed as unhealthy, this episode will connect the dots.</p><p>Because before a culture changes its behavior, it usually changes what it believes is normal.</p><p>And few people did more to reshape that definition than Alfred Kinsey.</p>
March 3, 2026
98. How Freud Sabotaged Your Sex Life
<p>This week, Rosie Makinney takes us on a thought-provoking journey through the origins of our cultural beliefs about sex, self-control, and repression. Drawing back the curtain on Sigmund Freud’s lasting influence, Rosie Makinney explores how modern notions about sexual desire, restraint, and guilt have been quietly shaped by one man’s radical theories in turn-of-the-century Vienna.</p><p>We’ll unpack how phrases like “boys will be boys” and “men are just wired that way” are rooted in Freud’s controversial ideas about repression, and examine the seismic shift that moved sexual self-control from a virtue to something seen as potentially damaging. Join us as we trace how these psychological frameworks have woven themselves into everyday advice, church conversations, and even marital dynamics—sometimes overshadowing Biblical wisdom about mutuality and self-government.</p><p>Get ready to question what you’ve inherited, rethink cultural assumptions, and discover why understanding these roots is essential for navigating love, faith, and healthy relationships.</p>
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- What is Fight For Love?
<p>Fight For Love is a podcast for women navigating the impact of pornography on relationships, faith, and identity.</p><p>Hosted by LifeWay author and founder of Fight For Love Ministries, Rosie Makinney, the podcast began by helping women make sense of betrayal, trauma, and recovery in porn-affected marriages. That foundation remains.</p><p>In Season 5, the conversation widens — asking why pornography has become so normalized and yet so difficult to talk about, why women’s clarity is often dismissed, and how a spiritual battle was reduced to behavior management.</p><p>This is an honest, grounded podcast for women who want more than coping strategies — and are ready for clarity, courage, and truth.</p><p> </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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