Let’s Talk about Sex!

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Lord,

I thank You for creating men, women, marriage, and sex. Thank You for Your good design. I pray for Your healing for the sex lives of my readers – so that their marriages might be vibrant, healthy, and most of all, that Your Name might be greatly glorified in their lives.

Thank You for the marriage gift of sexual intimacy. Thank You for the picture the one flesh relationship is of the one Spirit relationship Jesus has with the church. Thank you for Your holy purpose for marriage.

Help us to honor our marriage beds and please give us the tools we need to promote strong, healthy sex lives in our marriages that we might honor and glorify You and bless our husbands.

Amen!

Ladies,

I have a number of resources about sex in marriage and related issues that you are welcome to check out:

ATTRACTION

• 4 Ways to Get the Sizzle Back
• What Is Attractive/Unattractive to Our Husbands?
• 20 Ways to Enjoy Your Man
• 25 Ways to Be a Safe Place for Your Husband Emotionally
• Respect, Biblical Submission, and Sexual Attraction – how a wife changing her approach to line up with God’s design can often result in an increased sexual desire for both husband and wife.

Painful Attraction topics

• When Your Husband Is Not Physically Attracted to You
• A Wife Asks, “How Can a Husband Love His Wife and Be Visually Attracted to Other Women?”
• I Want to Be Desired by Other Men, Too.

BODY IMAGE

• A Husband’s Pain – His Wife’s Body Image Issues
• One Couple Deals with the Issue of Body Image
• A Husband Talks about Our Body Image and Attraction
• An Assignment for Those Who Struggle with Body Image Issues
• A Wife Begins to Find Healing for Her Insecurities about Body Image
• Praise God for Your Body!
• Maybe God Made a Mistake, Making Me This Way?

BOUNDARIES ABOUT SEX IN MARRIAGE

• Is Withholding Sex in Marriage Wrong?
• Are Particular Sexual Activities Wrong in Marriage?
• Avoiding Adultery
• Can I Be a Sexually Immoral Christian?
• Posts about Porn
• When Would I Not Submit to My Husband?
• Do I Condone Marital Rape or Abuse? (No!!)
• OneSoLoved Heals from the World of BDSM and CDD
• Do I Teach BDSM or CDD? (No.)
• How Could a Godly Wife Possibly “Respect” an Unfaithful Husband?

A HUSBAND WANTS MORE SEX THAN HIS WIFE DOES

• I Feel Like a Piece of Meat to My Husband Sometimes
• Taking the Initiative Sexually in Marriage – Respect Dare Day 38
• Withholding Sex
• Unlock Your Libido – a Book Review
• Resources on vaginismus (vaginal muscles clamp shut)
  • Vaginismus.com
  • When Sex Hurts – Today’s Christian Woman
  • A Story of Vaginismus – 5 Things I Wish I Had Known – To Love Honor and Vacuum
• Dyspareunia – Pain during sex
  • Mayo Clinic resources
  • Dyspareunia and Vaginismus connection
• Note – If your husband is being abusive, please reach out for trusted, experienced help.

A WIFE WANTS MORE SEX THAN HER HUSBAND DOES

• When You Want Your Husband to Initiate Sex
• The Devastation of Sexual Rejection in Marriage
• When Your Husband Rejects You
• When You Feel Deprived in Your Marriage
• Placing My Higher Sexual Appetite under the Lord’s Control
• Handling a Very Delicate and Sensitive Matter with Respect – a Husband’s Impotence
• Measuring Intimacy – evaluating how much my husband loves me based on frequency of sex and finding a more healthy approach
• Thriving in a Marriage without Sex if Necessary
• Contentment in Christ Alone in Painful Trials

A WIFE WANTS MORE CONNECTION

• I’d Love More Affection from My Husband – A Fellow Wife
• I Want to Connect with My Man – VIDEO

DEALING WITH DESTRUCTIVE JEALOUSY

• I Need to Change! I Can’t Go on Like This
• Healing for Destructive Jealousy – by Truly Blessed
• God Helps a Wife Overcome Destructive Jealousy
• Righteous Anger and Jealousy – there is such a thing as righteous anger and jealousy, and sinful anger and jealousy, check out the difference!
• Roots of Insecurity, Low Self-Esteem, Sinful Jealousy, and a Desire to Control
• Finding Victory over Feelings of Insecurity

If you are interested in seeing more, check out my:

•  Peaceful Wife Blog Facebook page
• my Youtube channel, April Cassidy
• My book, The Peaceful Wife – Living in Submission to Christ As Lord, has a section about respect and sex and lots of suggestions that may be helpful.

HELP FOR PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION

Covenant Eyes (affiliate link)—tools and resources for beating porn addictions for men, women, and children