CONTENTS
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1) MARRIAGE TIP--Sharing Facts and Feelings
2) ARTICLE--"Don't Forget the Honeymoon!"
3) EVENTS--BYU Family Outreach Conf.; Marriage Seminar;
BYU Idaho Education
Week
4) IN THE NEWS--Deseret News & Athens Banner-Herald
5) PROFESSIONAL & ECCLESIASTICAL REVIEWS--
"...powerfully corrective manifesto"
6) GREAT DATE IDEA--Love Lists
7) WORDS TO PONDER--Mutual fulfillment needed
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1) MARRIAGE TIP--Sharing Facts and Feelings
Communication is a powerful contributor to intimacy in marriage.
Couples can increase their emotional connection by sharing experiences,
facts, and feelings from their daily lives. This can be done verbally
with
phone calls, taking a few minutes at night for "pillow talk" time,
and
having a date night where there can be uninterrupted conversation.
Nonverbal communication can also build intimacy through cards, notes,
letters and e-mails.
Strive to share feelings more frequently by paying attention to your
emotions (especially the positive ones). Share at least one feeling
with
your spouse every day. For heart-to-heart talks couples need to
remember that just as physical intimacy requires foreplay, so does
intimate communication. Warm up your intimate connection by sharing
facts and feelings. There is a special power associated with intimate
communication (sharing and listening) that provides healing to the
heart
and soul.
(Taken from Chapter 10 "Becoming ONE--Emotional Intimacy" of
the book And They Were Not Ashamed--Strengthening Marriage
through Sexual Fulfillment.)
2) ARTICLE--"Don't Forget the
Honeymoon!"
With intimacy issues as one of the primary causes of divorce and
dissatisfaction in marriage, engaged couples need to prepare for the
honeymoon and the intimate aspects of marriage even more than they
prepare for the wedding day.
A positive, mutually enjoyable honeymoon experience builds a strong
foundation for the marital relationship. A negative experience can sow
seeds of dissatisfaction and disaffection that may fester for many
years.
Couples need to understand that education, understanding
each
other’s
expectations, as well as time and experience
will be needed to create
a mutually fulfilling intimate relationship.
Read the full article here:
http://www.ldsmag.com/familyconnections/050217honeymoon.html
http://www.strengtheningmarriage.com/news.php.
3) AUTHOR EVENTS--BYU Family
Outreach Conf, Marriage
Seminar,
BYU
Idaho Education Week
BYU Family Outreach Conference
Friday, March 11, 2005, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. BYU (Provo, Utah)
Author Presentation, 10:20 a.m.--"Strengthening Marriages Intimately"
For more information visit http://www.family-outreach.com
"Strengthening Marriages Sexually" (One-of-a-kind
Seminar
—Especially for women! You won't want to miss
this!!)
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2005, 1-5 p.m.
Location: Curves for Women—Fitness Center
(8960 West Ardene St., Boise,
Idaho)
Cost: $40 (includes the book And They Were Not Ashamed)
Register now and save!
* Learn the intricacies of the female sexual
response
* Understand and appreciate sexual differences
between
husband and
wife
Click here for
more information and to register
If you have questions email:
Seminars@StrengtheningMarriage.com
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Comments box when you register for the seminar and we will be sure
you are credited $15 back to your card.)***
BYU Idaho Education Week
Wed. Jun 22 - Sat. Jun 25, 2005 (Rexburg, Idaho)
SERIES I—"Understanding the Intricacies of ONEness in Marriage"
Lecture 1--"How to Become ONE in Marriage"
Lecture 2--"And They Were Not Ashamed—What
the Scriptures
Teach
about ONEness in Marriage"
Lecture 3--"Our Stewardship in
Marriage—Finding Mutual
Fulfillment"
SERIES II—"Teaching Your Children to be Morally Clean and
Better
Prepared for Marriage
Lecture 1--"Parental Preparation to Teach
with Power and
Conviction"
Lecture 2--"What to Teach Your Children"
Lecture 3--"When and How to Teach"
For more information visit:
http://www.byui.edu/ce/edweek_2005/default.htm
For information about additional author events visit our "Events" page:
http://www.strengtheningmarriage.com/events.php
(Links to/copies of additional news stories will be available soon at:
"...powerfully corrective manifesto"
"As a clinical psychologist working with many
couples with
sexual difficulties, I want to thank you for the wonderful
resource you
have created. Your book, 'And They Were Not
Ashamed,' is a
comprehensive and well-researched guidebook
for couples. What impresses
me even more is that you've also
provided a warm and personal, yet
powerfully corrective
manifesto, helping readers elevate the gift of
sexual enjoyment
to its divinely intended place in our lives. The book
has
enabled some of my female clients to give themselves
permission to
thoroughly enjoy sex for the first time in
their lives."
Mark D.
Chamberlain, Ph.D., Co-author of Willpower
Is Not Enough
and Author of Kids Are from Jupiter
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"...so straight forward, yet in a personal, not
clinical way"
"As a bishop I now recommend your book to every
engaged
couple,
about to be married, that I counsel with. The 'Good
Girl Syndrome' is
priceless information. I see too many women
in the marriage
relationship, who don't see 'anything in it for
them.' Who have the
attitude of, 'I don't care what you do, as
long as you don't wake me
up.' This eventually can give the
husband the feeling of approaching
his beloved wife 'only to
be serviced.' Your wonderful book explains,
that there is
something beautiful for both the wife and the husband in
their intimate relationship.
Young men also would do well to educate themselves
before
they ruin
this area on the honeymoon 'for many moons to
come' as you put it. The
book is so straight forward, yet in a
personal, not clinical way. I
also am glad it's coming from an
LDS women's point of view, so the
women both inside and out
of the church, can 'trust' the information. I
have recommended
this book to all the bishops in our stake."
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Thank you for your continuing comments of praise and appreciation for
the
book "And They Were Not Ashamed." Every bit of cultural
acceptance
and support of the views we are endeavoring to advance helps us to
break
down the barriers that impede our progress toward greater understanding
of the divinity of the intimate relationship in marriage. Take a minute
to
share your thoughts at: www.strengtheningmarriage.com/comments.php.
6) GREAT DATE IDEA--Love Lists
Call today to get a babysitter (if needed) for Friday or Saturday
night.
While out on the town enjoying your favorite delectable dessert, each
of
you
create a list of ten specific things that most make you feel loved.
Share your lists with each other and commit to do one thing from your
spouse's list every day.
7) WORDS TO PONDER--Mutual fulfillment needed
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"When wives are unfulfilled sexually, husbands too are unfulfilled.
The ultimate sexual experience is one where pleasure and enjoyment
are shared by both husband and wife."
~And They Were
Not Ashamed, p. xix
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