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The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido: A Couple's Guide |  | Author: Michele Weiner Davis
Brand: Simon & Shuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 3532
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 0-7432-2733-6
ISBN: 0743227336
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
EAN: 9780743227339
ASIN: 0743227336
Publication Date: December 30, 2003
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In contrast to its tabloid title, The Sex-Starved Marriage offers candid and sensible counsel for couples with mismatched libidos. Seasoned sex therapist Michele Weiner-Davis skewers two stereotypes about sex in marriage. First, she jettisons the idea that husbands are hot and wives are not, giving examples of "low-desire" men in her practice. Next, she upends the longstanding model of sexual response and advises readers: "Just do it. Desire is a decision. Once the low-interest partner allows him/herself to be touched and aroused, this will trigger a strong desire to continue being sexual." The strength of her approach to the causes of sexual stalemate lies in her insights about the struggles of both partners. Her suggestions (how to break the ice, how to court your partner, nag busting, and the Hallmark solution) are not gimmicky and are presented as techniques for couples, not individuals. Weakened only by a final chapter--one that discloses too many details about the authors marriage--this perceptive book will inspire couples to add heat and light to their marriage. --Barbara Mackoff
Product Description
Bring the spark back into your bedroom and your relationship with gutsy and effective advice from bestselling author Michele Weiner Davis.
It is estimated that one of every three married couples struggles with problems associated with mismatched sexual desire. Do you? If you want to stop fighting about sex and revitalize your intimate connection with your spouse, then you need this book. In The Sex-Starved Marriage, bestselling author Michele Weiner Davis will help you understand why being complacent or bitter about ho-hum sex might cost you your relationship.
Full of moving firsthand accounts from couples who have struggled with the erosion of sexual desire and rebuilt their passionate connection, The Sex-Starved Marriage addresses every aspect of the sexual libido problem: If you're the more highly sexed partner, you'll breathe a sigh of relief. At last someone understands your feelings about the void in your marriage. Discover why your pleas for touch have fallen upon deaf ears and why your approach to the lull in your sexual relationship could be a sexual turnoff. Most important, learn new ways to motivate your spouse to take your needs for more physical closeness to heart. If you're the spouse with a lagging libido, you're far from alone. You'll learn about the physiological and psychological factors, including unresolved relationship issues, that may contribute to the chill in your bedroom and what you can do to melt the ice. And if you're a man, you'll be surprised to learn that staggering numbers of men, even men whose sexual machinery works just fine, "get headaches" too! The Sex-Starved Marriage will give you and your spouse the inspiration, encouragement, and answers you need.
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 Thank you Michele Weiner Davis February 12, 2010
books (Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's scary how well Michele Weiner Davis knows men. This book saved my marriage from the brink of divorce. Before, my wife refused to even talk about sex. And she was MEAN about rejecting me. I felt utterly unloved. She would say all I ever think about is sex, even though I hardly mentioned sex to her out of fear of her wrath. I ordered the book thinking my wife would have nothing to do with it, but that I might pick up some ideas from it. To my absolute suprise, she agreed to read it with me. Mrs. Davis has an amazing ability to communicate with women about sex in a way that my most sincere, thought out words never could, and from page one! However, this book is targeted as much toward sex starved women as it is for sex starved men. I can only attest to how well it works on relationships where the man is sex starved. Anyway, please buy this book. If I can convince anybody to buy this book, it's the least I can do to say thank you to Michele Weiner Davis for what she has done for my relationship.
A must buy even if you don't have problems February 3, 2010
Jason Smith (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I highly recommend married couples to read this book, it will help guide your marriage even if you are getting it on a regular. Connection not sex is what I got from the book mainly. Both partners need to understand the needs of each other and enjoy the times they are intimate. I enjoyed it not because I am a man but because I love my wife, value our marriage and the connection that we need to have.
Terrific October 23, 2009
Dean Flory (California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Sex Starved Marriage is incredibly enlightning. It provides the key to the lock of so many sexual/relationship problems that couples have. The book is frank and serious as well as thoughtful and kind and one feels that it is addressed directly to the heart of the matters that cause real suffering to the ones we really love, our mates. It applys to the non sex-starved marriages as much as the starved ones too! WELL DONE!
Help for couples lacking sexual energy January 10, 2009
Jeanne M. Shaw (Atlanta, GA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a clinical psychologist and sex therapist since 1976, I have read almost every book and most chapters written about sexual desire problems. This book is different because it is written to and for couples, although therapists will gain valuable insight. The author addresses/confronts each (composite) partner separately, giving perspectives for change that can help him or her adopt new ideas about becoming the person and partner he or she wants to be. This is done without pathologizing either the more "highly sexed" partner or the one with the "lagging libido." Couples open to learning how they participate in maintaining a problem can do so without feeling shamed or blamed. They can learn how to claim their own enduring part and learn how to understand their partner's. Problems and solutions are described that will be familiar to anybody who has ever been in a relationship, and certainly every couples' therapist. The subtitle, "Boosting your marriage libido," is definitely not a quick fix, but an opportunity for individuals to actively change their own unhappiness in relationship, with a partner. I have recommended this book to couples, relatives and friends who ask, with excellent feedback.
Best therapeutic book ever read November 4, 2008
N. Wallace
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Being trained as a therapist this information was never taught so clearly. This book should be required reading for every therapist in training and couple getting married. It would save many marriages caught in the downward spiral of "my spouse doesn't love me anymore". I have read hundreds of therapeutic and self-help books and this is the only book I would recommend for a marriage in trouble or one wanting to prevent trouble.
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