50 Reasons to Make Love

50 Reasons to Make Love

50 Reasons to Make Love

1. To relieve stress.50 Reasons to Make Love
2. To improve emotional intimacy.
3. To boost your immune system.
4. To burn calories.
5. To improve heart health. 50 Reasons to Make Love
6. To build self esteem.
7. To decrease pain.
8. To improve sleep.
9. To help reduce prostate cancer risk.50 Reasons to Make Love
10. To strengthen pelvic floor muscles.
11. To increase blood flow in the body.
12. To reduce cravings and fatigue.
13. To connect emotionally, physically and spiritually as husband and wife.
14. To fight aging.
15. To awaken your sexual senses.
16. To say, “I love you” in your spouse’s love language.
17. To experience pure pleasure.
18. To just have fun together, and be more playful.
19. To fulfill each other’s universal need for touch.50 Reasons to Make Love
20. To reduce vulnerability to temptation.
21. To experience many physiological and psychological health benefits.
22. To help repair and/or rejuvenate the relationship.
23. To experience validation.
24. To become ONE.
25. To affirm that sex is of God.
26. To help you feel more calm and contented (and less irritable).
27. To co-create children. (Remember multiply and replenish the earth…!)
28. To keep the spark alive in marriage.
29. To experience lovemaking’s natural anti-depressant effects.
30. To increase her sexual desire, and better satiate his desire as well (or vice versa)!
31. To experience profound joy and intimacy.
32. To experience a “wholesome recreational activity” as husband and wife.
33. To switch gears from parent or employee to spouse and sweetheart.
34. To help you forget about all your cares for a little while.
35. To nurture love and friendship in marriage.
36. To forgive.
37. To heal wounds in the relationship.
38. To give a “gift” to the one you love. (BTW, this is a great Christmas gift for your honey!)
39. To enjoy “God’s wedding gift to husband and wife.”
40. To get to “know” each other (as defined in the Bible).
41. To cure a headache.
42. To practice and perfect the intricate art of lovemaking.
43. To overcome negative inhibitions and beliefs about sex.
44. To fulfill the human need for intimacy and connection.
45. To awaken, embrace and develop your sexuality.
46. To practice asking for what you want and need sexually.
47. To learn how to give what your spouse wants and needs sexually.
48. To experience the “exultant ecstasy” of lovemaking available to every couple.
49. To develop the “higher faculties and nobler traits” of human existence.
50. To enhance and reinforce marital unity and commitment.50 Reasons to Make Love

by Laura M. Brotherson

Source:strengtheningmarriage.com