intimacy Archives - Mamie L. Pack

Better sex: How to spice up your sex life in marriage

Do you ever feel like you need to spice up your sex life in marriage? Between taking care of your family, building a career, and being available to help in your community, sex can easily become the ignored area of your marriage. Think about it? How often have you given yourself to everything else and everyone else to be too tired to have sex with your husband? You put off sex one day. Then the next day. Before you know it, an entire week has gone by without even being intimate with your spouse once. Yo[...]

Marriage

8 mistakes in marriage wives can avoid

Being married is amazing. But even the healthiest marriages are not free of challenges. There are those obstacles we cannot control that impact our marriages like sickness, job loss, or miscarriage. Then there are those mistakes in marriage we can avoid. If we want to continue growing, then identifying common mistakes in marriage and improving them is essential. 1. Making your husband and his behaviors responsible for your actions One big mistake I made early in my marriage was inadverte[...]

Marriage

For better or worse: 7 ways to cultivate a healthy marriage during the Coronavirus Pandemic

For better or worse. Those were the vows, right? For some, being at home with the love of your life might be feeling a little strained right now. Are you noticing how loudly your spouse chews? (Did he always eat like that?) Maybe, those socks on the side of the bed are getting on your nerves? How hard is it to clean a mug? Or is he tired of seeing your hair in the shower? Irritated you keep using his charger and not returning it? Friend, if you said yes to any of these, you might b[...]

Marriage, Relationships

Moving forward: 3 healthy responses to offense in marriage

Offenses don't just happen in your marriage; offenses occur in all marriages. You are not alone. But how do you respond? Are you the angry wife? You know, the one who stomps around your home angrily cleaning hoping your spouse will get the hint. Are you the dangerous wife? The one who uses offense as ammo, shooting down any attempt of intimacy. Are you the controlling wife? The one who refuses to do anything or give anything unless everything goes your way. Are you the loving wife? Oh, she's the one[...]

Mid-week three

3 Mid Week Blog Posts you want to read

As we spend today celebrating Independence Day, it’s a great time to catch up on three of our most popular blog posts. Feel free to read, to comment and to share. Wife life: 3 prayers that changed my marriage This blog post is one of my favorite because these prayers are quite personal for me. They have helped to make a tremendous impact in my marriage and in my heart. I hope that you will be encouraged to include some of these prayers in your prayer time for your marriage. What were your favorites? R[...]