Learning to Dance with Desire
Have you asked yourself recently what idols are standing between you and a real and righteous marriage? Where does your heart need to be? What does the book of Hosea show you about the heart of Gomer–and about your own heart for your marriage?
My husband and I have faced some challenges in life. There have been times when I’ve thought the …
When my prayers ABOUT our marriage became prayers FOR our marriage, our marriage began to change.
In yesterday’s post I explained that I am intending to follow the Respect Dare and that I want to become more respectful of my husband …
When I was a little girl, I thought I had six choices for who and what I could be when I grew up. My mom …
Husbands of sex-resistant wives often say that even more than sex, their desire is to be desired. They want their wives to initiate. My husband …
Yesterday, my drive to work was filled with a deep and revealing exploration of some roots of some of my gate-keeping and refusal. I hesitated …
God plants. Right in front of me, He puts in place things I need to see, consider, remember, pray about, learn from. I’ve moved! While …
I had ideas. For the past ten years, my husband has not been with his family for Father’s Day. Our sons’ Boy Scout troop has …
The changes I’ve made within myself and in my sexual interactions with my husband have been hard and constant work. I made the decision to …
Has your marriage grown stagnant?
Our marriage has felt “off” this week. We had a wonderful weekend as a family, with a high school graduation and a wonderful dinner together …
My back yard is a disaster. We have a gigantic eyesore right in the middle of it—an old above-ground pool. The sides have fallen in. …
When it comes to being sexually ungenerous, some people make a distinction between gatekeeping and refusing. I often seem to use the terms interchangeably, …
When I began to intentionally change some of my sexual interactions with my husband, there was part of me that expected him to jump up …