Category Archives: To do

What Has Been the Best Change You’ve Made to Your Sex Life?

Improve Married Sex Life | 13 couples answer the question, "What has been the best change you've made to your sex life?"

In case you’ve missed it- we are talking all about sex this month as part of our physical touch love challenge- to have sex every other day for a month! Last week, I talked all about how our sex life went from ‘meh’ to ‘awesome’ about two years ago. In this post, I asked YOU what the best changes were you’ve made to your sex life, so we are going to learn from all your wisdom this week 🙂 Which is excellent, I have the best readers. Sorry if I didn’t include your response. I read and appreciated each one!… Read More

Improving Sexuality in Marriage- the Why and the How

Offering a three step plan to improve sexuality in marriage: read and research about it, make a sex plan, and talk about it a lot! –This post contains affiliate links.– Twice in recent memory I’ve been with a group of my girl friends, all of whom are married,  and the topic of sex came up.  Both times the general consensus seemed to be that they didn’t care much for sex. “Ugh! I don’t care at all about sex.” “I’m so over sex.” “I have no sex drive at all.” Shrug.  This reminded me of an email I received in response… Read More

The Very First Step Toward Your Happy Marriage

A happy marriage. We all want it. Sometimes its there in abundance and sometimes it feels so darn elusive that we’ll never have it. Why is that? Before we can understand how to have a happy marriage, we have to understand a few key things about happiness itself. Because sadly, we humans are notoriously TERRIBLE at understanding what makes us happy and what doesn’t. We become fixated, convinced that happiness lies juuuust ahead of that promotion or that 20 pounds we want to lose or when we find our soul mate. We’re convinced. BUT studies show over and over that… Read More

7 Ways to Reconnect With Your Spouse

Often when we let our connection to our spouse slip, it seems overwhelming or daunting to get that connection back again. It can be easier to isolate ourselves waiting for our spouse to do the work. But marital improvement starts with us always. It doesn’t have to be a big, daunting thing to re-connect. Start simple. The little things matter. They become the big things. Kim from Marriage Zing is here today to teach us seven simple ways to reconnect with your spouse when your connection has slipped.  Thanks Kim!   Marriage, or in many cases, parenting, can often take its… Read More

April Love Experiment Recap: Quality Time

What happens when you take 10 minutes to connect with your spouse everyday?  Good things. Good things happen. We just wrapped up our love experiment for the month- connecting with our spouse for 10 minutes every day. This challenge is based on Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages, specifically the quality time love language. Time for a re-cap! Initially we planned on doing our 10 minute connect plan as outlined in this post: 1. talk about the good of the day, 2. talk about the hard of the day, 3. pray, 4. kiss. But honestly, most of the time… Read More