Category Archives: 5 Love Languages

6 Resources for Spicing Up Your Marriage in the Bedroom

If we want to spice up our marriage in the bedroom, gaining new information is crucial! Whether its changing damaging mindsets that are holding you back or just getting some new tools and ideas to change things up- knowledge is power! These are all resources that have helped us. In a recent post, I mentioned four sex books I’ve read and recommended. I’ve gotten a lot of emails and questions about these, so I thought I’d offer more information on those as well as including a few more resources we’ve found helpful. 31 Days to Great Sex Are you sick… Read More

What Would Happen if You Had Sex Every Other Day For a Month? (PHYSICAL TOUCH Love Experiment Re-cap)

What happens when you have sex with your spouse every other day for a month? Good things. Good things happen. This post contains affiliate links. We just wrapped up our love experiment for the month- having sex every other day. This challenge is based on Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages, specifically the physical touch love language. Time for a re-cap! Of all the love experiments we’ve done so far this year (connecting for 10 minutes everyday for quality time, sending a loving text/note everyday for words of affirmation and giving a gift every week for gifts), this one… Read More

YOUR Sex Questions Answered (by a sex therapist) Part I

In preparation for this post, I asked you what you, my readers, are struggling with regarding sex, and passed those struggles along to Aimee Heffernan. Aimee, who is a licensed couples therapist and sex therapist who lives and works in Washington, was kind enough to answer a number of your questions last year (Part One and Part Two). In preparation for our interview, I sent her a list of your concerns to review. Right away we noticed some themes and will be talking about those themes instead of answering question by question. Desire Discrepancy First up- desire discrepancy. Here are… Read More

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