A Habit of Intimacy
Make a habit of intimacy in your marriage to acknowledge and strengthen your connection with each other.
Tag: connection
The Trail
I haven’t been good about being physically active this summer, and my arthritic knee has really been feeling it lately. The only way to strengthen …
Nurture Your Non-Sexual Intimacy
Nurturing the non-sexual intimacy in your marriage will help you inside and outside the bedroom. This post explains why.
Hurt Feelings Don’t Have to Mean No Sex
I have a sensitive heart. I have lots of feelings, and I feel them deeply. One of the downsides of this is that my …
If You Make Just One Change, . . .
Are you willing to make just one change in your marriage? Do this: Believe that emotional and relationship are at the heart of your husband’s sexual desire for you.
Operation Reconnection
For many years in my marriage, I felt disconnected from my husband. For him, connection happened primarily through sex and also from us just being …
What a Quickie Taught Us About Sexual Intimacy
Does a husband really value the emotional connection and his wife’s pleasure as much as he does his own orgasm? A quickie showed me the answer, and it surprised me.
Collateral Growth
As you work on sexual intimacy, you may see find that you grow in other areas as well.
The Power of “And”
When I was in fifth grade, I was part of the playground safety patrol at school. Before school and during recess, I got to …
Are You in the Mood for Sex?
“Do you feel like having sex?” he would ask me. Most times, I would seriously think about it: Do I feel aroused in any …
When He Wants You to Initiate
A reader recently sent me the link to A Letter from a Husband to his Wife on Sexual Refusal and Reluctance and asked me …
Connection, Restored
I had plans for today. I was going to apply for a couple jobs that were posted yesterday, work on a writing project, mow the …
Missed Connections
Are you missing out on anything because you and your husband define something differently? For me, what I was missing out on was connection.
Hungering for Connection
In my bad years, I had many excuses I would give my husband for why we couldn’t have sex that week/day/minute. I recognize now that …