Our Intimate Choices Marriage Retreat

Retreat site: Pacific Palms Resort

The Church, rather Catholic or Protestant, has long struggled to find its voice in promoting the virtue and value of sex while admonishing of its vices.  Over time, there has been the perception that the church is only willing to speak to those vices (adultery, premarital sex, etc.).  In truth, there are those who promote and herald the voice of God concerning positive sexuality in the context of marriage.  However, they are few and access to them may elude many as such conferences and retreats can cost upwards of $1200 and are often too general in their content to permit married Christian couples to gain a foundation that serves them in the long term.  We need more resources that help us answer the questions about how our attitudes and choices align with our faith (is oral sex

Make It Happen! When She Does and He Doesn’t

Anecdotal, the number of women decrying their husband’s sex drive is increasingly public and desperate.  Raging against popular perceptions of stereotypical gender attitudes toward sex, many wives are saying ‘he has what I want and he’s not sharing!’  What’s up with that?

My Woo-hoo Hurts!

When he penetrates, it hurts.  Why?

Many dear wives experience pain during intercourse and are not sure whether there is a problem that requires medical attention, if there woo-hoos are

Available Now! Your Sexual Attitude 2.0

Slavish unthinking adherence to a sexual routine that is comfortable, familiar and boring…

This is the plight of too many married couples who’ve consigned sex to

Vagina: Pre-Penetration Preparation

There are many myths concerning the vagina.  One such myth is that a vagina can be

Anatomy of An Erotic Bath

He gathers each item necessary to prepare a romantic and exhilarating bathing experience for his wife. To communicate her value to him, he’s avoided using common things on her this night. He has purchased a

Jon and Kate G.: What Their Story Means To Me

Jon and Kate Gosselin at Lincoln Center Discovery Event

Because of our daughters’ (identical twins) affection for the sextuplets on TLC’s Jon and Kate Plus 8, we find ourselves monitoring this show in light of the title couple’s ‘relationship issues’.  So much for family friendly viewing, TLC!

In watching this season’s shows and some weekend reruns, I think I see 5 key life lessons from this couples sad (and well documented) saga.  Do you see them too?

1. Be aware.  Children bless but, also, stress us.  In season 5, Kate relents “Parents of multiples have like three times the divorce rate…’  She would go on to confess “And I thought we were gonna beat that…”   The romantic notion of

When Sex Leaves The Marriage

By By Tara Parker-Pope (New York Times)

Published: June 3, 2009

Relationship researchers are studying no-sex marriages for clues on what can go wrong in relationships.

Tragic Magic: A Distortion of Beauty (See Video)

The woman in the video below is pretty…from the outset of the video.  However, the after-effects of her ‘transformation is all we tend to see projected before us.  What gets her to this place of being ‘gorgeous’ remains and unacknowledged/unknown quantity to so many.  In our chase for the ‘gorgeous’, we may have discounted the real nature of beauty.

Happily Never After

According to a study published by the Parents Television Council, major network prime-time scenes depicting sex between unmarried people outnumbered depictions of marital sex at a ratio of