THE DESEXUALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MARRIAGE: SUPER MARITAL SEX OPPORTUNITY NUMBER ONE
Couples in the clinic were asked to become reacquainted with each other, to meet as if they were meeting for the first time. Using the Marital Intimacy Quotient, as a guide, try the following activity.
Meet as a whole family, kids included. An attention span of ten minutes is all that is required. Sit down once every other day for a week for eleven periods and discuss each of the eleven items. The entire family should know that Mom and Dad are beginning a program for strengthening their marriage and that everyone’s help is required, that everyone is an important part of the marital system.
The meetings are an excellent first step on the way to super marital sex and toward meaningful sex education for you children. Tape-record these brief sessions and listen to them at the end of this book. You may want to rescore yourself then, and you may be surprised to see the changes.
The couple you met at the beginning of this chapter was one of the thousand couples who went through the entire super marital sex program in my clinic. I met them again recently, and you will meet them again at the end of this book. I was visiting a patient on the cardiology unit and saw them standing hand in hand outside one of the hospital rooms.
“We’ve been just fine,” answered the husband. “We were visiting my uncle downstairs. We came up here to look at the sp0 where we got our second chance.”
I hope you won’t wait until the type of crisis this couple experienced before you take a second chance to pay attention to óîur marriage and begin to enhance the intimacy of your own relation ship.
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