Laura’s Strengthening Marriage Blog

I had the opportunity to be a guest on KJZZ TV “The Home Team” show with host Julie de Azevedo Hanks on July 7, 2008. We had a great discussion about female sexuality and the female sexual response.

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I will be a guest on the Home Team “You and Me Monday” show with host Julie de Azevedo Hanks on KJZZ TV channel 14 (Salt Lake City, UT) on Monday, July 7 from 9 - 10 a.m. to do a segment on sexual intimacy in marriage.

They have asked me about inviting a couple (or a woman) who has read and benefited from my book, and/or that has worked with me through phone consultations to join us on the show to share their experience.
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It should come as no surprise that Satan has many tactics to try to get marriages and families off course in an effort to weaken and destroy them. That seems to be his number one objective. What’s really irksome to me is how Satan is using the sexual relationship in otherwise good marriages to weaken them.

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It’s hard to find many things sexier than a daddy who loves his kids. They say men doing housework is a great aphrodisiac for women, but I think “daddywork” is way up there on the list as well. Roses and chocolates and romantic candle-lit dinners have their place for stirring the heart, but it’s hard to beat the feeling that comes from seeing your husband play with the kids, or help them with homework, or teach them something, or tuck them in at night. Now that’s a turn on!

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What would your husband like for Father’s Day (or his birthday or for your anniversary)? How about seven nights of passion! Read the rest of this entry »

Parents will do almost anything for the welfare of their children. But talking with their kids openly and confidently about sex and intimacy doesn’t seem to be one of those things. When I ask audiences how many of them had parents who taught them more than half of their knowledge about sex, I rarely get more than a smattering of hands. Parents are chicken.

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Wondering about the discrepancy between the many women who dress provocatively in public and the many wives who struggle to share themselves freely with their spouses in private, one husband asked, “Does it take more confidence for a woman to dress revealingly in public, or to dress revealingly in her bedroom for her husband?” What do you think? This question reminds me of the many men who feel that their wives were very passionate and affectionate before marriage then found that that didn’t translate into their marriage relationship. One husband even called it a “bait and switch.” It’s my contention that women don’t mean to do this on purpose. They are simply poorly prepared for a healthy sexual relationship in marriage.

It’s one thing for a woman to seem like “a tease” prior to marriage (though I don’t think most women mean to, at least consciously). It’s something completely different for them to be prepared to follow through on that tease within marriage! It’s all about a healthy sense of self and one’s sexuality. This is not something that is generally taught, modeled or developed in young women (or men). Thus we can see some of the roots of sexual frustration in marriage. Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations to Jim and Kim who were drawn as the winner of our 2008 Couples Photo Anniversary Inn giveaway. We appreciate all those who shared their wonderful photos, and hope you will continue to send them our way. Shown here are some of the couples photos we’ve recently received, but you can see all of them on our Couples Photos Page.

We appreciate the growing community of couples who are willing to be a part of strengthening marriages…intimately!