Husband

Does Sex Really Start In My Brain?

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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My husband orders me around
My husband orders me around

On my husband's day off - which may fall on the same day as mine - he will try to tell me what he wants done for the day, not giving any consideration to the fact that I have worked all week too. He is an excellent provider and a caring dad to our two children. When I try to tell him that I have plans, he gets disappointed that I won't stay home...

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My husband wants sex all the time
My husband wants sex all the time

My husband is 23 and I am 20. Lately he has been wanting sex all the time. He and I both thought it was just a phase, but it has gone on for a while now. Is it just a phase or what? Advice: Most couples find they are off schedule much of the time. The solution is to talk about how much sex you want in your marriage. Many women say they like sex...

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My husband says I’m too fat
My husband says I'm too fat

My husband has been bothering me for the past year about my weight. I have gained thirty pounds since I met him. I have asked him to stop bothering me about it but two days ago he told me that I he was not sexually attractive to him because I was so fat. He said that because of my obesity he has not wanted to be with me. I still have a good shape...

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My husband thinks I’m going to leave him
My husband thinks I'm going to leave him

My husband worries constantly that I'm going to leave him. We've only been married eleven months and although I tell him I won't leave him and I show him I that I love him, it's never enough. If we get into the tiniest disagreement the first thing he asks is "do you want a divorce?" Advice: Read the book, Changes That Heal by Henry Cloud. There...

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My friend offended my husband
My friend offended my husband

My husband and I were recently out to dinner with my best friend and her husband. My friend's husband made a joke that my husband took personally and my husband got angry at him. My friend's husband was embarrassed and cancelled our plans for the weekend. I told my husband that I thought he was wrong for treating a friend like that. Now he is not...

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My husband is an angry perfectionist
My husband is an angry perfectionist

I have been married for thirteen years and we have a two-and-a-half year old daughter. My husband is a wonderful man, but he is a perfectionist to the extreme. He has a very difficult time coping with little interruptions and is very impatient. He gets extremely frustrated when things don't go exactly right. Then - you guessed it - he takes his frustration...

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I have a miserable marriage
I have a miserable marriage

I am becoming very miserable in my marriage. My husband drinks and it has been a problem for a long time. He spouts out obscenities and accuses me of having an affair, calls me obscene names and tells me he'll take away my daughters (in front of them). All of this over some irrelevant disagreement or reproach from me–how do you have time to have...

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