Learning to Dance with Desire
What can you do when your needs are not being met? Rather than letting your needs and desires be lost in translation, help your husband decipher them and recognize his efforts to speak love in your language.
Is reading sexually explicit romance novels good for your marriage? (Hint: the answer is no.) Is reading these books as bad as viewing porn? You deserve a marriage that has not been influenced by unrealistic expectations and arousal brought to you by fiction.
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.
When old patterns arise, do a new thing.
How can you find peace when you’ve made so many changes and your husband has barely budged? This post gives you eight ideas for how you can respond.
I was playing a video game the other day, and I realized that my avatar’s energy level was getting low. Instead of forging ahead …
Have long-time patterns carved ruts into your marriage bed? When you recognize a rut, you have a new opportunity to replace those long-time patterns of thought and behavior with something better.
One of the Bible verses that speaks so deeply to my heart is Psalm 46:10: “Be still, and know that I am God.” Many …
My Facebook feed recently had a meme that said, “Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.” A woman made …
A little over a month ago, I planted a couple tomato plants. Our tomato cages got lost in our move last year, so I …
For a little over a year and a half, my life has been full of plenty of stress. It has often seemed non-stop, with …
Oral sex can be such a source of tension in marriage. I hear from both women and men in marriages where the husband would like …
God designed us as sexual beings. We have sexual urges. We have a clitoris which serves no other purpose that providing a woman’s sexual …
I’ve often said that I am on the same journey of healing our marriage as many of you are. That doesn’t mean that I …
As the marriage bed becomes cleansed, it can become easier to experience the blessings God has poured into your marriage.