Sharing Your Load
Have you ever noticed that there’s something almost invisible and intangible that interferes with our ability to connect with our spouses sometimes? According to a lot of research, it affects women more than men. It’s about the mental load we carry, how our minds are...
The Sexploration List- and 3 Ways to Use it!
Keeping things new and exciting is a great way to help your marriage stay fresh. In order to have healthy eroticism in your marriage, you have to be willing and able to communicate about what you are excited about, what sounds truly awful to you, and what you might be...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you and yours! We created the goal setting sheet below to help you kick your new year off on the right foot. Print out two of the goal setting sheets. Take some time with your spouse to each fill one of them out, then get together and go over them....
Commuter Marriages
Do you or your spouse live away from each other for part of the time? A commuter marriage is defined as a marriage where spouses live apart for reasons other than separation or divorce. Roughly 4 million American couples live apart for some or most of the time....
What I Learned at the Jennifer Finlayson-Fife Retreat this Fall
Hello, my friend. I'm Dan Purcell, your host here at Get Your Marriage On! My wife and I put on a marriage conference in the past and this year we decided to do something different and we put on a marriage retreat. It was absolutely phenomenal! And today I want to...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
Day 11 - The Present of Your Presence Sometimes sex isn’t as pleasurable or connecting because you feel like you’re stuck in your head. You’ve got “mommy brain” or “daddy brain”. Your thoughts sort of go like this: “Mmmm.. this feels good. I like that. I wonder if we...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
Day 10 - Prioritizing Pleasure in the Bedroom Welcome to Day 10! Today I want to share ideas on how to make sex more pleasurable for both of you. Making pleasure a priority for lovemaking makes sex fun and worthwhile. Pleasure can come in many ways, and prioritizing...
Sexy Christmas Coupons- Free Printable!
It's officially December! We're only a couple weeks away from Christmas and we wanted to provide a fun way for you and your spouse to connect during this time. You can print these out and cut them to make a little flip book, have them ready to tear off, or just cross...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
Day 9 - Desire, Passion, and Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLxeHNOA8s I remember in physics class learning about strong and weak nuclear forces. An example of a strong force is the force that keeps the atom together. An example of a weak force is gravity,...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
Day 8 - Novelty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Nf4OY5QGc If you plan to stay married for a long time, novelty in the sexual relationship is vital. It’s human nature to crave newness and adventure from time to time! We like variety in our food. We like new cars, new...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
Day 7 - Language Of Touch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy2h-nQRvHU Today is all about touch, both non-sexual and sexual touch. Non-sexual touching is just as important as sex. Non-sexual touching includes things like holding hands, cuddling during a movie or just...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-ZnSa914rY Day 6: Avoid These 7 Mistakes Couples Make As I’ve coached couples and individuals, and from my own experiences, I’ve noticed a few common mistakes people make that undermine our ability to get the most out of sex. I want to...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfYJoQlHJQ Day 5: Getting In The Mood (Why Context Matters) Today I want to talk about getting in the mood. The language we use around “getting in the mood” makes it sound like getting in the mood is something that happens to us,...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7Wb_VIPzY Day 4: Talking About Sex Isn’t it funny that we sometimes find it easier to have sex than to talk about sex? It feels vulnerable to share with your spouse what your experience is like making love. It can also be a very...
An Intimate Christmas: Twelve Days of Closeness, Connection, and Pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1EqcWEP6fU Day 3: You, Me, and We (humility) Welcome to Day 3 of the 12 Days of Intimacy! I admit I picked this topic for day 3 because I need it the most. And it’s likely something you won’t read in a Cosmo magazine 😉 Let me preface...
Enhancing Intimacy with Sex Toys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq-Bke1OyKQ We don't talk a lot about sex toys and things like that on our site mostly because we really want to focus on the relationship and the intimacy dimension of a relationship to make intimacy and sex great in marriage. But you...