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Rebuilding Your Marriage After Traumatizing Sex

Rebuilding Your Marriage After Traumatizing Sex

God intended married sex to be life-giving – mutual, satisfying, exciting, comforting, bonding, nourishing, joyful. Evil has so hijacked sex, even married sex, that it’s too often become life-destroying – exploitative, demeaning, or even violent. If sex in your marriage has been life-destroying, rebuilding your marriage will be a challenging process.

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To the Wife Traumatized by Married Sex

To the Wife Traumatized by Married Sex

Just because sex happens within marriage doesn’t always mean it’s good. God designed sex to be a beautiful life-giving nurturing experience between husband and wife. But evil has so hijacked sex that what God intended for good has too often been used to steal, kill, and destroy – even in marriage. This article is not for everyone. But if you’re a wife traumatized by married sex, keep reading.

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9 Characteristics of a Healthy Sexual Relationship for a Christian

9 Characteristics of a Healthy Sexual Relationship for a Christian

Sex is complicated. When experienced as God intended it’s beautiful, bonding, nourishing. But when sex is marred and distorted by the enemy it becomes deeply destructive. Sex cuts very close to the core of who we are as human beings. It’s much more than biology; it impacts and is impacted by everything about you and your relationship. But what really is a healthy sexual relationship for a Christian?

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Five Ways to Pray About Your Troubled Marriage

Five Ways to Pray About Your Troubled Marriage

Every marriage faces challenges. And praying is the best thing you can do. God loves to do miracles! He is well able to restore, heal, and transform whenever He is given the chance. So why do your prayers seem to be doing nothing for your marriage? Let me unpack five specific ways to pray about your troubled marriage, with some questions to ask God when your relationship needs help.

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When Praying to Restore Your Marriage Isn’t Working

When Praying to Restore Your Marriage Isn’t Working

It’s dangerous to even imply that prayer isn’t enough. That seems to go against what any “good” Christian believes. And yet I speak with husbands and wives all the time whose prayers for their marriage seem to go unanswered. What are you to think when praying to restore your marriage isn’t working? How long are you supposed to “wait?”

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