It can be difficult to get your wife to talk about sexual intimacy. Why is she resistant, and what can you do to invite her into conversation?

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Resources

• How to Talk about Sexual Problems with Your Spouse - Hot, Holy & Humorous
• Are You Listening to What Your Spouse Says about Sex? - Hot, Holy & Humorous
• Chonda Pierce: “Naked, Naked, Naked” (visit her website here)
• Ben Franklin effect (doing a favor for another fosters positive feelings toward them)
• Sex Talks - The Forgiven Wife
• Six Things to Know About Emotional Disconnection - The Forgiven Wife

This Week's Takeaway

Ask your wife what she would like you to do to be a better husband.

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Women's sexuality is often misunderstood—by both husbands and wives. Why is this?

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Resources

• As Bad As Porn? - The Forgiven Wife
• Love Like a Woman: Should Your Sexual Response Be Like Your Husband's? - The Forgiven Wife
• When You Need Help Getting in the Mood: 3 Ways to Nurture Your Desire Throughout the Day - The Forgiven Wife
• Q&A with J: “How Can I Orgasm with Penetration?” - Hot, Holy & Humorous
• Wives, Your Voice Matters (in the Bedroom & Beyond) - Hot, Holy & Humorous
• Why She Communicates the Way She Does (and It May Not Be What You Think) - J. Parker guest post on The Generous Husband
• 6 Ways to Help Her Have a Orgasm - Psychology Today
• Women's Motivations for Sex: Exploring the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, Text Revision Criteria for Hypoactive Sexual Desire and Female Sexual Arousal Disorders - The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• Narratives of Desire in Mid-Age Women With and Without Arousal Difficulties - The Journal of Sex Research
• A qualitative exploration of the meaning and experience of sexual desire among partnered women - Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
• Women's sexual desire: Disordered or misunderstood? - Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
• Definitions of women's sexual dysfunction reconsidered: Advocating expansion and revision - Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Why women are different from men - Amanda Gore
• Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality - Sarah Barmak
• Reclaiming Female Sexual Desire - Pam Costa (TED talk)

This Week's Takeaway

Take a look at some of the articles, posts, and videos in our resources above.

Chris and J discuss the challenge many wives face of shifting their attention to sex and maintaining that attention even after intimacy has begun.

• 6 Tips for Inspiring Your Lower Drive Spouse to Say Yes to Sex
• Mindfulness & Meditation During Sex
• My Many Mental Browser Tabs

Do something that helps your wife make the mental transition to sexual intimacy.

Chris and J share tips for initiating sexual intimacy with your wife. We cover some approaches that likely won't work and some that may!

• Your Wife Has Been Sexually Harassed
• Q&A with J: Sexual Wants Vs. Needs
• How Do You Initiate Sex?
• When He Wants You to Initiate
• Understanding Her Sex Drive Webinar
• Pillow Talk: 40 Conversations About Sex for Married Couples

Talk to your wife about what helps her want to step into that invitation to sexual intimacy with you. Bonus: Ask if anything you're doing when you initiate sex turns her off.

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Resources

The #1 Myth Christian Women Learned about Sex #1 Myth Christian Men Learned About Sex What Does Her Orgasm Mean?

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