June 2010

  • Marriage Advice from an Infamous Houseplant Killer

    By becksta on 6/25/10 12:11am
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    Bathroom SinkBathroom Sink

    I recently asked a friend for some advice about love and marriage and she offered to write some of her own advice anonymously. She's been married over a decade as have many of her friends and truthfully has some useful advice in the form of a personal story.

    Her Story


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  • Sex and Marriage: Dealing with Infidelity

    By becksta on 6/15/10 4:31pm
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    Sex and Marriage: InfidelitySex and Marriage: InfidelityDifferent sex drives in a relationship does NOT equal the freedom to cheat at will; however, there will always be those partners who stray while whining about their spouses’ sex drive or lack thereof, which is complete and utter BS. There are plenty of alternatives for partners to explore together to resolve the situation that don’t involve cheating. See HERE for some ideas on how to work with different sex drives in relationships.


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  • Sex and Marriage: Incompatible Sex Drives

    By becksta on 6/10/10 12:48pm
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    This is part II (Part I is HERE) in a short series about everybody’s favorite topic- Marriage and Sex and will specifically focus on ways for couples manage the difficulty of non-matching sex drives. Some men (and some women as well) take the low sex drives of their spouses as a license to cheat- John Edwards, whose wife had breast cancer,  is one of the more recent examples of this.

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  • Sex and Marriage: How Much is Normal

    By becksta on 6/7/10 6:42pm
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    Marriage and SexMarriage and Sex

    This article provides a revealing tell-all tale of a woman who pretends to be drunk or in pain in order to avoid sleeping with her husband- the writer paints the portrait of the woman (Lynn) avoiding sex at all costs because facing up to sex with her husband is such a “chore”. Lynn claims she is still sexually attracted to her husband, but that she is not interested in doing the deed. She admits that the couple has not had sex for five months and blames her lack of interest (and a lowered sex drive) on giving birth.


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