Category Marriage

I'm A Christian With A Sex Drive - Christian sex drive

I’m A Christian With A Sex Drive

With God and A Sex Drive I’m a Christian with a sex drive. Growing up, I believed the highest form of piety was giving up your sex drive… Completely! To never look at anyone of the opposite, or the Lord…

One Day at a Time - healing & restoration

One Day at a Time

I never learned about love and intimacy and being romantic, nor to love my wife as Christ loved the church. If my parents taught me about that kind of love, I missed it. I heard about love and intimacy and…

Self Awareness - self awareness relationships

Self Awareness

Do you say or do things without thinking how it will affect or impact the people around you?   The dictionary definition of self-awareness is “conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires.” I also believe it’s having a…

Single and Hating It - singleness

Single and Hating It?

There are a couple things every single person needs to know in order to thrive while single 1. If you are waiting on a husband or wife to be happy, then you’ve already began worshiping an idol that will never…

The 23 Year Old Virgin - sex

The 23 Year Old Virgin

“A 23 Year Old What?” A 23 year old virgin. How would you describe me? Desirable? Attractive? Pathetic? Inexperienced? Mature? Lucky? Wise? I guess this probably depends on your thoughts about virginity. Or maybe on your experience. Maybe you’re still…

Who Cares If I'm A Virgin - does virginity matter

Who Cares If I’m A Virgin?

“Why should I be a virgin anyway?” “It’s my life so who cares?” These are questions that ran through my mind as a young teenage girl…all of which were left unanswered, for me to figure out by myself. I had…

The Marriage Myth - marriage

The Marriage Myth

Let’s demystify something real quick: Sexual purity is not a “single-person” problem. It is a human problem. If you have a sex drive, you need to learn how to manage it healthfully. This is a fact that I am very…

My Spouse is Addicted to Porn … Help! - pornography

My Spouse is Addicted to Porn … Help!

QUESTION How do I move forward in my marriage? I have been married for 23 years and there has always been a third in our lives: porn! Any way he can get it, he would, and the Internet has opened…

Sex in Marriage … After a Porn Addiction - sex marriage after porn addiction

Sex in Marriage … After a Porn Addiction

QUESTION I feel God has delivered me from pornography, but after I have sex with my wife, I feel like I’m fighting those same demons again! Right now we expect different things from sex. However, I feel the most victorious…

The Honeymoon Night - sex

The Honeymoon Night

QUESTION I am a virgin, but one day when I am married (hopefully) I’ll have sex. I keep hearing all of my friends that are going to get married talk about having to stretch themselves so that their husbands will…

IUD's for Birth Control - sex

IUD’s for Birth Control

QUESTION I am getting married and started reading about birth control. I am thinking about using the IUD. Do you have any thoughts on that? DOCTOR’S ANSWER With the older generation of IUDs, I would have considered this among the…

Real Sex, Real Life - real sex real life

Real Sex, Real Life

SEX: A DIVINE ENCOUNTER Before meeting my husband, I had bought into the media’s version of sex. I believed that it was just an act that I would have to perform to keep my husband satisfied so that he wouldn’t…