Category: Marriage
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Feeling Pressured?
Recently there was a discussion on a particular forum about pressure in marriage. Now the context of this pressure was that no one should do something they don’t want to do because they feel pressured. Well, I didn’t quite agree with that. See, my love for my wife makes me feel pressured to do things…
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When the Price of Peace Gets Too High
What is the price you are paying for peace within your marriage? What part of yourself do you hide from your spouse to keep the peace in your marriage? What portion of your integrity are you selling out? Is it worth the price? We’ve all done it. We all hold back because to not do…
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Control or Intimacy, You Can’t Have Both
A quote I read recently attributed to Laura Boyle made some things click for me. Control and intimacy are opposites. I can have one or the other, not both. ~Laura Doyle This quote clarified how Dr. David Schnarch’s (affiliate link) articles People Have Sex Within The Limits of Their Development, People Who Can’t Control Themselves…
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Intimacy Isn’t Just a Code Word for Sex Part 3
Intimacy is difficult A post by J at Hot, Holy & Humorous and another by Julie over at Intimacy in Marriage got me to thinking about intimacy in marriage and, no, I don’t just mean sex which spurned the Intimacy Isn’t Just a Code Word for Sex series. In the fist post of the series…
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Intimacy Isn’t Just a Code Word for Sex Part 2
A post by J at Hot, Holy & Humorous and another by Julie over at Intimacy in Marriage got me to thinking about intimacy in marriage and, no, I don’t just mean sex. In our last post I shared this definition for intimacy: Intimacy is the act of allowing someone to truly know the real…
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Intimacy Isn’t Just a Code Word for Sex
A post by J at Hot, Holy & Humorous and another by Julie over at Intimacy in Marriage got me to thinking about intimacy in marriage and, no, I don’t just mean sex. This is how I’d like us to define intimacy for this and all our discussions: Intimacy is the act of allowing someone…
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Time to Give Up?
What’s your schedule look like? If it’s anything like our schedule it’s busy. We’ve got one son going to play practice and another going to baseball games and when there isn’t a game they’re practicing. On baseball game nights, which is most weeknights, anyone who goes to the game typically isn’t home until after 10:00PM,…
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Sex and the Good Samaritan
The church at Corinth was having issues regarding sex and sent questions to the Apostle Paul about the issues they were facing. Below is a part of Paul’s answer to the church at Corinth. 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations…
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Dealing with the Past in the Present
There are a lot of hurting people out there. Many of them have been abused and the abuser is still controlling them years after the abuse has stopped. The abuse is reflected in the sexual menu of their marriage. There are strict limits on the sexual activities that these couples can experience together. Couples physical…
