Laura’s Strengthening Marriage Blog

I will be a guest on the Home Team “You and Me Monday” show with host Julie de Azevedo Hanks on KJZZ TV channel 14 (Salt Lake City, UT) on Monday, July 7 from 9 - 10 a.m. to do a segment on sexual intimacy in marriage.

They have asked me about inviting a couple (or a woman) who has read and benefited from my book, and/or that has worked with me through phone consultations to join us on the show to share their experience.
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It should come as no surprise that Satan has many tactics to try to get marriages and families off course in an effort to weaken and destroy them. That seems to be his number one objective. What’s really irksome to me is how Satan is using the sexual relationship in otherwise good marriages to weaken them.

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It’s hard to find many things sexier than a daddy who loves his kids. They say men doing housework is a great aphrodisiac for women, but I think “daddywork” is way up there on the list as well. Roses and chocolates and romantic candle-lit dinners have their place for stirring the heart, but it’s hard to beat the feeling that comes from seeing your husband play with the kids, or help them with homework, or teach them something, or tuck them in at night. Now that’s a turn on!

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What would your husband like for Father’s Day (or his birthday or for your anniversary)? How about seven nights of passion! Read the rest of this entry »

Check out the newly posted radio show podcasts on the new Podcast Page. These are FREE audio podcasts from Laura’s radio show segments with Dr. Liz Hale. Dr. Liz and author Laura M. Brotherson discuss the delicate subject of sexual relations in marriage with both candor and reverence.

Some of the many topics discussed in the podcasts include:

• Preparing for a positive honeymoon experience
• Teaching children about sexual intimacy
• Pornography’s effect on marital intimacy
• Reasons to make love
• How to bring up the topic of intimacy with your spouse
• How to answer what’s okay and what isn’t questions
• Why you were attracted to your spouse and how it can lead to your healing and wholeness
• Focusing on ourselves to improve our relationships
• Sex after childbirth
• Female sexual desire issues

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One lucky couple will receive a FREE one-night stay at the Anniversary Inn of their choice, in the theme room of their choice, (valued between $169 - $289) for sending us their couple photo. To enter the drawing, send us one of your favorite photos of you and your spouse by Friday, March 14th (though we’ll welcome your photo anytime!). Grab a digital camera or get a special couples portrait taken. The winning couple’s names will be drawn, and will be announced in our next next “Straight Talk about Strengthening Marriage” newsletter.

You don’t have to have a perfect marriage to send us a photo, or we’d have NO photos to post! So, send us your favorite photo (uncropped, 200dpi minimum, to couplesphotos@strengtheningmarriage.com with your first names, and how many years you’ve been married. Even if you’ve sent us a photo before, we’d love to post a new one.

With our Couples Photos page we are continuing to build a showcase of couples who are committed to strengthening their marriage intimately. It’s a reminder to all that the marital unit is the vital foundation of the family and society. Read the rest of this entry »

Few things are more enticing than chocolate—especially around Valentine’s Day. But the sweetness fades and the residual calories remain. Give your sweetheart something different this year. What’s better than chocolate you ask? How about something from the heart.

A friend recently asked me to write “a prescription” for her husband to provide more of a certain loving behavior to help her stop eating chocolate so much. I promptly wrote out the prescription on a napkin and handed it to her with a smile. The husband later told me he was happy to oblige. I started calling him her chocolate substitute!

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Anti-Mormon Bias

I was disappointed to see the end of Mitt Romney’s campaign for the Republican nomination as president of the United States of America. I personally believed that he would have made a most excellent president, especially at this time of economic insecurity, continual threats of terrorism and anti-American hatred, declining moral and family values, and out-of-control illegal immigration.

I was even more dismayed trying to understand how a man of his caliber, character, values and integrity could not handily overcome the competition for the nomination. I should have clued in when hoards of conservative voters overlooked Romney and cast their vote for Mike Huckabee in state after southern state, especially when Huckabee has been liberal on raising taxes and illegal immigration.

The pieces started to come together for me as I began to see and hear of those who would finally admit to and write about the anti-Mormon bias that had quietly been there all along. I could have never imagined. Read the rest of this entry »