‘We only had sex three times in the first three years of our marriage’
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Emma Fowle2025-01-31T11:51:00
As a Christian couple, Hannah and Ben Tarbuck thought they were doing everything right by saving sex for marriage. But it didn’t result in the passionate wedding night they were expecting
Having grown up in the church, Hannah Tarbuck is a self-confessed “pastor’s kid” who has always loved Jesus and never rebelled. “I haven’t even smoked a cigarette!” she jokes. She met Ben at their school Christian Union and they started dating when Hannah was 16. Four years later, aged 20, they were married.
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