I thought our marriage was great except for one intimate thing. I was all wrong. Here’s how we fixed it
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For 31 years of being married, my wife and I never talked about sex.
For the first time, we both thought our marriage was finally solid. After years of secrets and affairs and bringing our own traumas into our marriage, we went to a marriage conference, for once, not because our relationship was barely hanging on by a thread, but to get encouraging information that we could share with other couples as we started our own marriage ministry.
Then there was Saturday night.
I WAS SO IN LOVE WITH MY WIFE, BUT ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT WE KNEW IT WAS A MISTAKE
The homework for that night concerned sex.
Not necessarily doing it.
Talking about it. To each other.
I remember going to the room feeling good because I didn’t think we had much to talk about in this area, and it would be a breeze. We’d go to a nice dinner and do the project quickly.
Kathy was very quiet, like “you could cut the air” silent, until we got to the room. Her plan was to skip going to dinner, to order room service, and to give the project our all:
“For me, Kathy, I remember thinking that there
