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4 Ways to Build Acceptance and Sexual Interest
Healthy marriage, healthy sex life, with the one-another passages. Sexual Interest Thrives when You Feel Accepted When it became apparent our marriage was in trouble, sex was a problem. We felt conflict and animosity the most around the bedroom. However, looking...
A New Sex Drive for a New Decade
At any point in the year, you can decide to make a change. I, personally, like that there is a focus on change as the New Year rolls in. There is a little added motivation and support when lots of people are talking about the same thing. Band wagons aren't all bad!...
Team Work Makes the Dream Work (and how the 59 “One Another” Bible Passages can help your sex life)
Disclaimers This post is intended for marriages where both spouses are good-willed, even if sexless. When in conflict, at times, your spouse may be grumpy and behave badly, just as you probably do. At each of your cores, however, you are loving and have only good...
Personal Lubricant 101 (a.k.a. There’s No Slip Without The Slide)
(This post, shockingly, contains affiliate links. *wink*) “You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon,” Solomon says as he admires his bride (SOS 4:15). The best lovemaking has just enough blissful friction to allow sexual tension...
Sex’s Primary Job is Not Lust Management
Having dealt with pornography in our marriage, a reader recently asked me to respond to the idea that it is the wife’s obligation to keep her husband sexually satisfied so that he won’t lust. She asks, "What responsibility does the husband have to manage his thought...
What’s Holding You Back from Passionate Sex?
Would you join me in welcoming, Julie Sibert, to Oysterbed7? Julie's blog, Intimacy in Marriage, was one of the first Christian sex blogs that I began reading. Her authenticity and humor helped me understand that words like, "Christian," and, "Sexy," can be used in...
Friendship 101: Just Talk (or the art of conversation)
Here's why building a friendship is so important for wives with low sex drive. "Emotional libido" is a term I use sometimes to describe a wife's desire to be sexual based upon her emotional connection to her husband. It is not physical sensation, but an emotional...