11 ENJOY PHYSICAL INTIMACY

Sexual fulfillment and fun are part of the joy of marriage. It’s not a duty; it’s a privilege to share physical intimacy with one another.

Some basic principles can be applied to your sexual intimacy.

Discover what pleases and fulfills your mate. Talk about what brings your spouse pleasure and fulfillment. Then do it.

Make time for foreplay. Everything preceding physical intimacy is part of foreplay. Don’t rush your time together.

Put your mate’s needs above your own. As you meet your spouse’s needs, you will discover your own needs being met.

Remember that the goal of physical intimacy can be something other than intercourse. Touching, talking, hugging and time together produce powerful intimacy.

Have fun. Relax. Focus on your mate’s needs.

Stop thinking about other things, problems or people when you are being physically intimate with one another. Give your total attention to your mate.

Find times for just the two of you to get away from children, jobs, responsibilities, etc. Spend one-on-one time together daily.

Try this: Decide how much one-on-one time you will spend together daily. Use that time to share positively and be physically intimate.

Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time,
so that you may devote yourselves to prayer.
Then come together again
so that Satan will not tempt you
because of your lack of self-control.

1 Cor. 7:5 NIV