{"id":1404,"date":"2013-08-20T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrownupmarriage.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2015-04-21T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:52:31","slug":"hidden-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodymcbride.com\/agrownupmarriage.com\/hidden-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies as it&#8217;s been quite awhile since I&#8217;ve posted anything.  I&#8217;ve spent a busy summer watching my youngest playing a lot of baseball and haven&#8217;t had the time nor the inspiration to write.  As I&#8217;ve said before,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I won\u2019t post just to be posting.  I only post when I think I have something to say.  I want to be challenging you and myself with my posts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, today I was challenged by a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boards.themarriagebed.com\" title=\"The Marriage Bed | Forum\" target=\"_blank\">The Marriage Bed Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Without sharing too much of the story it seemed to me that the post came down to a wife wanting to &#8220;spice things up&#8221; a bit and her husband&#8217;s perceived reaction to her spicing it up a bit and then the discussion that followed.  It seemed to her that in the moment he enjoyed what she had interjected into their love-making but when they discussed it later she found that what he said didn&#8217;t match what she thought his reaction had been in the moment.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bluetext\">Her quandary, to continue to &#8220;spice things up&#8221; or to stop for <i>fear of offending her husband&#8217;s sensibilities<\/i>?<\/span>  The challenge is to be true and honest with ourselves and also with our spouse.  So, to tell her that her desire to &#8220;spice things up&#8221; was misguided would be telling her to wear a mask that denies her desire to &#8220;spice up&#8221; their sex life.  To tell her to ignore her husband&#8217;s comments, would be telling her act in a disrespectful way to her husband.  I thought the best thing to do was for them to have a discussion about &#8220;spicing things up&#8221; in their marriage bed and to decide, together, how they would do that.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bluetext\">What desires of your heart are you hiding from your beloved?  Is it time to &#8220;spice things up?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies as it&#8217;s been quite awhile since I&#8217;ve posted anything. I&#8217;ve spent a busy summer watching my youngest playing a lot of baseball and haven&#8217;t had the time nor the inspiration to write. As I&#8217;ve said before, I won\u2019t post just to be posting. 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