Is sex more work than play in your marriage? Do you schedule it in like a dentist appointment? Do you make love once a month, twice at the most?
If you answered yes to these questions, you are among the forty million Americans trapped in a low-sex or no-sex marriage.
Now there is help from nationally acclaimed sex and marital experts Barry and Emily McCarthy, who for years have helped couples break down the barriers that have developed between them, and rebuild closeness and longing. Their groundbreaking ten-step program is designed to get sex and intimacy back into these marriages and revitalize relationships. Crafted by years of clinical practice, Rekindling Desire first shows couples how to root out the "poisons" that inhibit sexual desire: shame, guilt, anger, passivity, as well as medical side effects and physical dysfunctions. With sensitivity and tact, the McCarthys then lay out concrete techniques and effective strategies that help couples increase sexual awareness, confront inhibitions, revitalize desire, and integrate intimacy and eroticism.
An exciting new way to spark and sustain desire, Rekindling Desire confronts the secrecy and stigma of low-sex and no-sex marriages, teaching couples how to enjoy a fulfilling, life-long sexual partnership.
".. brings hope and excitement as it gently unravels the mysteries and misunderstandings surrounding marital sex... I highly recommend it." -- Diane Sollee, Director, Coalition for Marriage, Family, and Couples Education and smartmarriages.com
"...highlight[s] poignant stories of lost intimacy. Read it for a map of how to reunite with tender loving care." -- Psychology Today
"A sensitive practical book that most couples will find useful, written by gifted and respected clinicians..." -- Taylor Segraves, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Case Western Reserve University, editor, Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy