Learning to Dance with Desire
This post is for men married to women who are survivors of sexual abuse. Patrick DeMuth has allowed me to use words he wrote for his wife Mary’s book Not Marked. Important insight for husbands of survivors.
Awaken Love is the kind of book I wish I’d had when I first began to look for help in my journey.
Although the Bible doesn’t clearly tell us how often we should be having sex, it’s clear that long stretches of abstinence aren’t what God had …
Over the past year, we have seen so much media coverage of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual trauma. So many of us bear the weight of sexual trauma of some kind, and I’ve written quite a few posts to encourage you in your healing. This post links to all of them.
#MeToo makes it very clear is that just about every segment of our society is infected by the problem of sexual harassment and sexual assault. No place is totally immune—and that includes our churches.
When we pray to God from the depths of our mess, we discover that He is already right there with us. Right in the worst of it all, the Holy Spirit resides.
Giving voice to your own story of sexual assault can be an important step in your healing. It is part of how you can begin to mend what once was torn.
When we carry baggage loaded with heavy sin, it can be hard to accept God’s forgiveness. But God runs out to embrace his daughter, just as the father did when the prodigal son returned home.
Do you still carry a little girl inside you, one who learned negative lessons about herself as a child? Remember that your husband is not your father, or your grandfather, or your uncle, or any other man you knew as a little girl.
What happens when we stop thinking that our sexual response should look just like that of our husbands? What if we instead chose to celebrate our differences and embrace what our female sexual response brings to the intimacy in our marriages?
It is Mother’s Day in the US, and many women are hurting today. I have good friends whose hearts ache because they once again face …
This post is going to get a little personal—and not in a sexy way. If reading about stress incontinence would be too traumatic for you, …
The bible tells our husbands to live with us in an understanding way: You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in …
One barrier many of us encounter in sexual intimacy is our inability to trust our husbands. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand …
Belah Rose at Delight Your Marriage has a podcast series of interviews with marriage writers about their marriages, seasons of struggle, and journeys of transformation. …