Sexuality
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Love and Marriage Advice from Someone who Married Twice! By Katie
If you want sound love and marriage advice, ask someone who has enjoyed two successful and happy marriages! I’m honored to be asked to write a little about an institution of which I’m quite fond — marriage. I love it so much, I’ve done it twice. The first time was for 28 years before the love of my life died of cancer, I am now married to the love of the rest of my life. We’ve been married a little over two years. I won the lottery twice with two completely different men. I’m here to tell you that Stephenie Meyer was right, you can be in love with…
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A Rough Start: Emotional/Verbal Abuse, Limited Intimacy by Madi
We would see each other for about 30 mins each morning and then we would get home around 8 with homework still yet to be done. I knew that we wouldn’t be able to spend every second together, and I respected that C had to study a lot. All of that being said, I couldn’t help but feel like he was growing more and more distant. For some reason, I began to blame myself. I became obsessed with perfection. I would make sure to keep the house spotless, make dinner every night, and go along with whatever plans he had. A lot of the time, this included me just sitting…
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Blending Parenthood and Marriage by Jenna
Parenthood is beautiful and rewarding, and the best job in the world, but It can also be a vortex. As a parent, especially a mom, we give so much of ourselves to our kids. We give our time, our bodies, and possibly even sideline certain dreams. However, the one thing we have to be careful not to give up is our marriage. When my husband and I became parents for the first time, everything became about our daughter. She was breastfed and refused a bottle, so leaving her for very long was out of the question. Because of this, I’m sure you can imagine, that dates with just the two…
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Finding Strength Part III: Faith Crisis, Sex Drought, Less Love, Suicidal Thoughts by Anonymous
He belongs to a very large family and is one of 7 siblings. Unfortunately, he hasn’t felt close to any of them since his mother died when he was 13 years old. She fought a vicious battle with Melanoma that progressed to a point where she was left comatose and dying in their home until it took her life. He watched his mother die slowly. He witnessed her declining every day until she took her last breaths. Shortly after his mother died, his father remarried, and the family moved two hours away. He had just lost his mother, a stranger was now living in his home and trying to control…
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Sex is Not What I Expected: Living with Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome, Painful Sex and Marriage
by Anonymous Do you suffer pain with sex? If you are experiencing painful sex and marriage, you may be suffering with Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome. If you are fearful of painful sex ruining marriage, rest assured that vulvar vestibuilitis syndrome doesn’t mean the end of intimacy. Painful Sex and Marriage: Painful First-Time Sex Before getting married, I was a virgin. The first time with my husband, I expected it to hurt. That’s what everyone said. I prepared and did everything I could to make our first time a good experience, but was EXCRUCIATINGLY painful. I talked with my friends — they said it hurt their first times, but after having sex…
- Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, Dating, Deciding to Marry, Differing Values, Marrying Young, Mental Illness, Sexuality, Therapy
Humility in Marriage: Anxiety Affecting Marriage, Relationship OCD Success Stories by Morgan
Anxiety affecting marriage is becoming more common in today’s day and age. Morgan and many of our other writers have faced this problem head-on, and it manifests itself in different ways in marriage. Another mental health problem that can rear itself in marriage. Though less common, OCD can stress marriages to the point of divorce. If you need hope and you’re looking for relationship OCD success stories, Morgan has a fabulous one. Introduction: Marrying an Amazing yet Imperfect Person I have a great marriage and an amazing husband! He cooks me breakfast, carries me to bed, always asks what he can do for me, strives to improve whenever I ask,…
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Asexuality by Anonymous
Asexuality and marriage go hand-in-hand more often than many might think. More people are being vocal about how they blend asexuality and marriage or asexuality in relationships. We appreciate this woman for sharing her experiences with asexuality and marriage. She shares how her asexuality drove a wedge between herself and her peers growing up, and how it has created hurdles for herself and her husband. I am asexual. I’d heard that term before I even really knew it applied to me. It means “without sexual feelings.” It means that I don’t experience sexual attraction to anyone. And for me personally, it meant growing up with a strange distance between me…