Can feelings of sexual obligation affect your libido long-term? This month we're talking about obligation sex. We started last week by noting 10 things to understand about obligation sex, when I wrote the definitive post of everything that I tend to talk about with...
Every week I try to create awesome content for you all on the blog and the podcast–and even my social media! But I’ve got to tell you–some of the best content coming out of Bare Marriage is our Friday email that goes out to 46,000 people every week. And I don’t write...
Ready for some new research on orgasm? It's been a while since we shared some new findings in the areas of sex and marriage, and we've been saving new peer reviewed articles and studies to tell you about! Today we thought we'd focus on two that relate to obligation...
We know that sex is vulnerable to women. But is it vulnerable to men, too? I received this reader question recently which I found really insightful. She asks,I am currently going through the book, "Rethinking Sexuality" by Dr Julie Slattery. She quotes Timothy Keller...
Sometimes libido differences can send you on a negative spiral, where both of you are constantly feeling rejected. In about 7 weeks (yikes!) our manuscript for The Great Sex Rescue is due in at the publishers, so I'm frantically writing. I would have been doing that...
If you're a Christian, can you be a sexually confident woman? Absolutely! In fact, you should be a sexually confident woman, because you understand the richness of how God made sex! I'm just back from an amazing vacation (and I'll post about it on Friday; I really...
Do you find it hard to get comfortable with your body? And is part of the problem that you just don't understand how your body works? I just finished a few posts about the Ultimate Women's Wellness Bundle to help you understand your body. But what if you didn't get it...
Feel like you have no libido--as if it's in hibernation or something? You're not alone! This post contains affiliate links. I love talking on the blog about how libido is so much more than just physical--how it's spiritual and emotional, too. In my Boost Your Libido...
I've talked a lot about masturbation in marriage on this blog before. I've tended to come down pretty hard on masturbation (I really hope there's not some ugly double entendre there that I'm not seeing) in the past when it's done for selfish reasons. In this post, for...
What do you do when you're feeling sexually frustrated in your marriage? A lot of advice for sexual frustration tends to be for singles, because sex is entirely off the table. But what about when you're married, when sex IS an option, but your spouse just isn't giving...
What do you do if sex is very distasteful, and you'd rather not be sexual in your marriage at all? Last Friday I wrote a post about how withholding sex in your marriage is not a good idea (it's better to deal with WHY you're withholding sex). And last week I wrote...
Is withholding sex in marriage okay? If you're not a sexual person, or if you don't think your spouse deserves sex, is it okay to cut them off from sex? A lot of people who are on this blog are desperate because their spouses have sex with them less than once a month,...
Personally, I think women's libidos is largely in our heads. As in, what we think about libido determines our libido. So what is it that we're told to think? Well, let's do a comparison here. Decades ago, boys took a lot of math and did most of the math jobs. Now, I'm...
This marriage blog was originally for women--married, Christian women, to be exact, although honestly anyone is welcome! It's about advice for marriage from a Christian perspective, and I deal with everything quite openly--including sex. Most people who read here are...
If your husband wakes you up for sex, or starts sex with you when you're asleep, is that okay? A reader sent me a link to a post that The Transformed Wife did recently where she was telling a woman that being woken up for sex when she didn't want to be is a-okay, and...