Have you ever found your mind wandering when your spouse is talking? Do you find it difficult to pay focused attention to your mate, especially if you are under stress or have a laundry list of things to accomplish? Do you find yourself getting defensive and shutting off if your mate has a complaint or is unhappy? Listening with full attention and an open heart…
Have you ever received a heartfelt apology from someone? Feels great, right? You likely have also heard a less-than-sincere apology- “I’m sorry you feel that way.” Or, “I’m sorry but I didn’t have time!” Most of us don’t know how to offer a truly robust apology that has the power to soothe and reconnect us. Here are four tips for a great apology:
Do you ever wonder what it takes to have a perfect marriage? I’ll let you in on a little secret; there are no perfect marriages! Marriage is something that needs protection and tender care for a lifetime!
A refreshing read on how to restore or reboot your marriage, No More Perfect Marriages might be the perfect book for you. Jill and Mark Savage recently published this beneficial book regarding growth in marital intimacy.
This is probably the comment I hear most frequently from women in my office. After a fight, a period of disconnection or sitting on a long-standing pile of resentment, wives have difficulty bringing themselves to be sexually intimate. Most often they feel it would be a betrayal of themselves or a lie to engage.
Some women feel very little, if any, energy for sexual connection. Low libido does not make you non-sexual. You are a sexual being by creation. If you have a low sex drive, there are many possibilities:
1. First, low sex drive compared to what? Your husbands? Almost 30% of women think they have a lower sex drive than other women. The truth is we just think about it less often.
If we were to believe what we read at the check out counter at the market, we’d conclude that it’s the bad girls who have the market on hot and sexy experiences. Let me just say- absolutely not true. A National Sex Survey revealed that the married women who were most likely to experience an orgasm are conservative, religious women.