Physical Intimacy

I’m thrilled to have my fellow blogging friend, J from Hot, Holy & Humorous sharing here today.  J is one of my favorite Christian sex bloggers and one of the reasons why I like her SO much is because she writes on physical intimacy from a biblical perspective. And she’s direct.  Hmm, she loves Jesus…

Physical intimacy hasn’t always been simple for me because I have issues when it comes to the marriage bed. -Issues like a promiscuous past.  This really messed with my mind and my emotions once I married my beloved. -Comparing myself to my husband’s former wife who divorced him. -Having a low no sex drive during certain seasons…

When a husband breaks the trust in a marriage, how do you trust him again?  After all, for a healthy and thriving marriage, trust is vital! Dear Jolene, Today I caught my husband of 20 years at a strip club- hands on and all during a lap dance from a girl young enough to be…

Recently, I had the opportunity to read Dr. Juli Slattery and Dannah Gresh’s newest book, Pulling Back the Shades.  If you don’t know a thing about this book, allow me to share it with you. Basically, the book was written out of a need.  Our culture has been turned upside down with the book, 50…

A wife’s emotions are most certainly connected to her desire, or lack thereof, in wanting to be intimate with her husband, after all, God did not make us robots and we’re certainly not Stepford wives! Our husbands may say some unkind words that can cause us to want to emotionally withdraw from the relationship, which…

Missed some posts in this series?  You can read them here. I’m tempted to answer my own question, “You bet,” and leave it at that. Yet I know the struggle that many Christian wives feel. I’ve felt it too. That sense that if you really enjoy sex with your husband… If you desire, delve, and…

Missed some posts in this series?  You can read them here. Sex and money are two of the most heated topics of discussion in marriage; often causing so much turmoil it fuels on toward divorce. In today’s economy, 19 million Americans are struggling financially, largely because of a job layoff followed by trouble finding full-time…

Missed some posts in this series?  You can read them here. Sex was a problem. Steamy chemistry ignited first romance with my husband and sealed our marriage.  It was like magic.  Fifteen years later, where was it now? Somehow we had slipped into a place of misery. My gestures of love for him were met…

It’s not always easy to keep the passion alive in marriage.  Over time, the newness of our relationship wears off.  Life becomes mundane.  We succumb to our busy schedules and get caught up with other pursuits.  These things can easily snuff out the passion we once had for each other, and thus, cause our marital…