Is a Sex Hiatus a Good Idea?
If you’re trying to heal the sexual intimacy in your marriage, a brief hiatus from sex might be a step forward. If you’re just trying to avoid sex, though, a break can be harmful.
Learning to Dance with Desire
If you’re trying to heal the sexual intimacy in your marriage, a brief hiatus from sex might be a step forward. If you’re just trying to avoid sex, though, a break can be harmful.
When it comes to sexual intimacy, do you prefer to stay on the sidelines of your growth, willing to let God make some changes but not interested in doing much of the work yourself? If you want healing, you need to do your part and get yourself to the healing waters.
Most husbands experience emotional connection best through sexual intimacy. Their desire to connect with you through sexual intimacy is how God designed them. And you may be surprised to know that learning to care for your husband’s heart may end up healing your heart as well.
Deal with your feelings to bring healing to you and your marriage.
Complacency keeps you mired in the pain of the past. Conquer your complacency. Choose to move forward and seek healing.
How can a wife heal her hurting heart? My years of resistance to intimacy, sexual and otherwise, were built on a foundation of my own …
Discouragement on the journey to improve sexual intimacy is normal. Most of us hit stumbling blocks, wonder if our efforts will ever pay off, experience frustration as things don’t work or seem harder, and struggle with a husband’s reaction (or lack of reaction) to our work. For each area of discouragement you experience on your journey, see if there a new way to understand it so it can become a source of encouragement instead.
My sexuality is so interconnected with my emotions that even a small emotional blip can turn off the sexual switch for me. This post shares strategies to help restore what emotional hurt has pushed aside.
If sexual intimacy is tangled up with other issues in your life, you can begin to untangle the mess, one step at a time.
September 5, 2010, was a significant day in our marriage. It was the day my eyes were opened to the hurt my husband was experiencing …
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.
We all experience hurt in our marriages from time to time. I’ve moved! While you can peruse the archives here, I am no longer …
Today I am writing about something that some of you may not have experienced: a broken record. If that’s the case, just gather round while …
In the second segment of my on-going conversation with CSL at The Curmudgeonly Librarian, we discuss whether spouses should have sex when they’re upset, …
I am delighted to have a guest post at Intimacy in Marriage this week as part of Julie’s What is Destroying Sex in Your …