Intimacy
Childhood Sexual Abuse: How the past affects the present
Rough estimates put one in three girls and one in six boys in the US at risk for being sexually abused. But exact figures are hard to assess because most children delay reporting their abuse until later in adulthood or never report it at all. Many of the women I’ve led through healing were not believed when they did report it, or worse, they were...
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Help! My Wife Doesn’t Want Sex part2 Part1: Help! My Wife Doesn't Want Sex Making the connection Then there is...
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How to Write a Love Letter What could be more romantic than receiving a love letter? A...
Okay, that's a really corny title, but I've been thinking for a while about the verse in Song of Solomon which says, "Do not awaken love until it is ready." I think some of us have let our love be awakened too early, or too abruptly, and so it never really woke at all. Several routes to this disastrous awakening exist. The first is obvious:...
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Did you realize that the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the time spouses and family members are most ignored? Why? We get so busy doing things for our families that we don't take the time to spend with them. So take a few moments and express your devotion to each other. Are you mutually devoted? Then declare it! There is nothing quite...
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You might feel like you’re alone in this, but you’re not. Free email mentoring is available today. Request a mentor. There are many reasons a woman may experience a diminished sex drive. Men and women are very different sexually. Women are emotionally driven while men are more physically driven. The stage of life can be a factor...
2 Comments » You might feel like you’re alone in this, but you’re not. Free email mentoring is available today. Request a mentor. There are many reasons a woman may experience a diminished sex drive. Men and women are very different sexually. Women are emotionally driven while men are more physically driven. The stage of life can be a factor...
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You might feel like you’re alone in this, but you’re not. Free email mentoring is available today. Request a mentor. I agree with Dan Allendar when he says that, “Sex is volatile and it was meant to be.” For guys, when we are getting regular sex the world is as it should be and we are the confident male species ready to take on any...
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I'm going to start with something really basic. Men want to be wanted. They don't want to be placated. So when it comes to intimacy, we women need to step up to the plate a little bit more. You may think you're meeting his needs because you're making love a few times a week, but he won't feel loved unless you put some energy and enthusiasm into...
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Whether our sexuality was stolen from us or we gave it away, we experience a loss. But unfortunately many of us don’t allow ourselves to grieve those losses. Psychologists tell us that there are five stages of grieving; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Writing out our life map begins to move us beyond denial to truth....
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