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Michele Weiner Davis · 2003
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What this book knows
Sexual desire mismatches quietly destroy marriages, but naming the gap honestly and acting on it can restore connection.
desire
It has slowly gone from twice a week to, if I'm lucky, once a month — no foreplay, she doesn't even kiss me.
SSM-001It hurts every time my wife doesn't want to make love. It makes me feel unloved, unattractive, unworthy — but her unwillingness to try makes me angry.
SSM-004intimacy
A couple can fight about anything, then make love and soothe the bad feelings — a forgiving ritual. Deprived of even that, bitterness accumulates.
SSM-003His ability to satisfy Debra sexually made him feel good about himself as a lover; their close sexual relationship reverberated throughout the rest of their marriage.
SSM-006I need him to hold me, tell me I'm beautiful. We don't need intercourse, but if he would just touch me, I would feel he cares.
SSM-013embodiment
Above and beyond the biological factors, when it came to lovemaking, her feelings about her body stopped Andrea dead in her tracks.
SSM-011Illuminates
15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience
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