Married and Still Doing It

Wanting the one you're with

Laurie J Watson LMFT, LPC

5 Tips to Holiday Partying to Keep Sex Hot at Home

With all the fun and festivities coming, ironically, the holiday party is often a minefield for couples.

How to Let Your Partner Know You're Not in the Mood

Every partner initiating sex hopes for an excited reaction from their lover. As long as we are honest, vulnerable, and direct, we can refuse and still stay connected.

Sex When You Have Cancer

For people going through cancer, sex can be a powerful affirmation of aliveness – many patients say it is one of the most important markers for their quality of life.

5 Mistakes Women Make in Bed

Women who think their sex life is lacking often assume it’s because they don’t have a perfect body or that they don't act like a porn star. False.

5 Mistakes Men Make in Bed

Most men come to sex therapy to learn better techniques. But while it is important to know what she likes specifically, his sexual skill isn’t usually what’s causing the problem.

Toxic Cultural Messages to a Woman's Libido

You may not realize that negative messages received throughout a woman’s formative years can have a profound impact on how she sees herself sexually.

How to Stay Sexually Connected During Infertility Treatment

Forty-five percent of couples in treatment to help with infertility report having sexual difficulties. Sex "on the clock" creates pressure, boredom, and more.

Sexual Pain: Six Possible Causes

If sex hurts, you won’t want to do it. It’s estimated that about 20 percent of women suffer vaginal pain with foreplay or intercourse.

5 Ideas to Spice Up Your Sex Life

Couples often ask me, as their sex therapist, how they can spice things up in bed. I think this question, most often, is really a request for permission to act on their own ideas.

How Sexting Can Be Healthy

Sexting has gotten a bad rap—and with good reason. Plenty of people have gotten themselves into hot water by sending inappropriate texts and pics... but here's a reframe.

Sex After Divorce: 4 Questions to Ask

Are you divorced and entering the dating scene a decade or two after you last went out for drinks? You are probably wondering about how the sexual game has changed.

Is Body Image Affecting Your Sex Life?

Body image can really mess with our heads—in bed. And for women, criticism of our bodies can have the biggest impact on sexual desire.

8 Ways Alcohol Can Affect Your Sex Life

The relationship between alcohol and sex is tricky. It can help us open up to healthy sexual activities, but there are risks too.

How Depression Affects Sex

Depression can have a profound impact on sexual relationships. It can hamper our ability to feel emotionally secure with our partner, and it can rob us of our desire for sex.

Stealthing: What You Need to Know

“Stealthing” is a form of sexual violation that is as deceptive and dangerous as it sounds.

What's the Best Time of Day for Sex?

Morning sex vs. evening sex – it’s an age-old conflict. Men wake up aroused with a testosterone spike, so morning is prime time. But women often prefer a relaxed evening time.

5 Ways to Overcome Premature Ejaculation

Premature ejaculation—usually reaching climax in one minute’s time—is the number one sexual dysfunction among men, and its biggest consequence is shame.

How to Agree on Sexual Frequency

The most common argument presented in sex therapy is “How often are we going to have sex?” — an important attachment question. Here are 5 do's and don'ts to resolve differences.

6 Possible Reasons a Man May Decline Sex

When Jenny's husband of several years barely ever initiated, she started to believe he wasn’t attracted to her anymore. He claimed he was, but still never seemed to make a move.

After Menopause: How Sex Is Different

As most menopausal women could probably tell you, “the change” is about much more than just what is going on physically.

7 Snafus During Sex: What to Do When Things Go Wrong

Let’s face it: Two bodies can make a lot of sounds and smells that are anything but sexy. Here are some embarrassing difficulties you might encounter – and how to handle them.

The Real Secret to Keeping Sex Hot

In the early years of a relationship, sex is hot, hot, hot! But can married couples keep sexual passion alive over the long haul? Long-term desire is rooted in something deeper.

When Partners Disagree About Taboos

Though it’s still taboo for many, there’s been a cultural shift when it comes to heterosexual anal sex. Do women enjoy it? What if he wants it and she doesn't?

6 Ways to Increase Her Orgasmic Power

Has the mountain turned into a molehill? There is nothing more frustrating for a woman than to have the physiological motivation toward sex diminish or disappear. Here's help...

Four Rules for a Productive Sex Talk with your Partner

How many times have you thought if you could just communicate about sex, it would get better, but instead talking seems to make it worse?

Looking for the G-Spot? 6 Things to Know

Is the G-spot real? Does every woman have it? How do I know if I'm touching the right spot?

6 Facts and Myths About Masturbation

While it may feel shameful to admit, everybody does it at some point in their lives.

What Sex Really Means to Women

Sex begins in her mind. For her, it’s the fantasizing, remembering, and imagining hot sex that revs her engine. Sex researcher Meredith Chivers says “being desired is the orgasm.”

The Truth About Men and Sex

Sex begins in the body. While women’s desire for sex may be prompted by their mind, memory, or emotional feelings of connection, for men, desire is physical.

Does She Want Emotional Connection Before She Wants Sex?

A man complained that his wife didn’t want to have sex unless she felt emotionally connected to him. He had no idea what she was talking about.

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