Blended family marriages face unique stressors that can affect a couple’s sexual relationship. Here are five sexual pitfalls to avoid.
Sex & Intimacy
Husbands can reveal God’s loving, self-sacrificing movement into people’s hearts by the way they treat their wife. And wives can reveal God’s invitation to be filled with His strengthening presence.
Sex clubs, Internet porn, AIDS . . . with so much bad news, it’s easy to forget what God intended sex to be.
Some see sex as a means to an end. But when something is reduced to a utilitarian process, it ceases to be beautiful. Waiting for sex helps couples find its true value: unity.
When you choose to be affirming, encouraging and giving, you stimulate positive emotions in your spouse. Couples who understand this learn how to make love, not just have sex.
Consider the following ways to avoid or end an extramarital affair and learn about the importance of knowing your spouse’s primary needs.
A good marriage is a mystery on many different levels.
God creates man and woman as reflections of the image of the Trinity.
We dishonor God when we fail to mirror the Trinitarian reality and beauty in our relationships.
Differing perspectives and fears about our imperfections can make Biblical intimacy challenging. Learn how to develop pure intimacy in your marriage through embracing your differences.
We live in a culture that has either forgotten or rejected the idea of marriage as a covenant. Couples who want to go the distance in their relationship need to rediscover it.
Cultivating romance and fostering spiritual growth with your beloved takes discipline and intentionality
We may stereotypically think of sexual temptation as a man’s problem, but women are not immune to the lure of romance depicted in new and graphic forms of entertainment.
Read practical ways you can maintain (or restore) the sanctity of marital intimacy and move past impurity, manipulation, hopelessness or shame.
“When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.‚”
What sustains us and restores us after we fall? Embracing the vision of Christ living in us and in the holy temple of our marriage.
Without effort, time and attention, sex can easily and quickly become mundane and predictable and can even turn into a dreaded necessity to place on the ‘to-do’ list.
A fulfilling marriage does not drop from heaven into your lap. It becomes fulfilling when it’s tended like a beautiful garden.
Ecclesiastes says that there is a time and a season for everything. December is the season for singing.
With the mindset of marriage being an adventure in which husbands and wives stick together through thick and thin, the words “until death do us part” take on a whole new meaning.