Do You Communicate in a Way That Works?
Do you communicate with your husband in a way that truly works? This post gives you three questions to ask to help you know if your words and actions work for or against your marriage.
Tag: communication
Is It Manipulation? Motive Matters
Men sometimes talk about women playing games and being manipulative. Most of the time, I think they assume it is manipulation because they don’t understand …
Lost in Translation
Intimacy in marriage includes knowing and accepting each other. My husband needs to accept that my sexuality is different from his, and he needs to accept that what I will give him in the form of my expression is the best way I can translate my feelings into his being desired. At the same time, I need to accept that my husband needs to feel sexually desirable to me. I learned that I could translate what I’m feeling emotionally into a sexual expression that will speak to my husband.
A Wife’s Heart: A Colloquy
As I wrote about last week, CSL at The Curmudgeonly Librarian invited me to write a guest post in which I got to respond …
Do You Like Your Husband Too Much?
When Facebook came out with the Like button, I fell in love. Interaction became so easy. I could scroll through my news feed, clicking here …
Today’s Peacock
Pride goeth before a fall, and today’s peacock is tomorrow’s feather duster. I was prideful about being a great communicator–until it became clear that I wasn’t as great as I thought I was.
If Only Real Life Had Thought Bubbles
For much of the first ten years of my marriage, I was a sexual gatekeeper, insisting on the right set of conditions before things could proceed. …