Wife gives husband an extra-special 40th birthday present: read and smile.
I’ll bet this story gets forwarded to a lot of wives… 
ETA: Wait a minute, the husband turned it down?!?!? What a doof!
Yeah, but the vixen wouldn’t have it. Good on her.
It’s a very sweet gesture but pretty unrealistic. Still, good for her for thinking of it. She obviously loves her hubby and enjoys sex very much. It’s rare to find a couple that “into” each other. He’s a lucky guy, and he apparently deserves her.
I wonder if anyone makes a “Blank-a-Day” calendars for sexual positions?
Yeesh. You read the comment after that article? What a tough crowd!
Why is it unrealistic?
Good on him, hopefully he gets the same present next year.
I have not yet had the experience of being a wife, but it seems strange to me to keep hearing how many women seem to regard sex after they get married. I can see how, if you are busy with work, children, and housework, you could be too tired to do it, but not even wanting to have sex with your husband? Is the man some hideous beast or something?
I am also amused and slightly dismayed at the commenters calling her a hussy or being disgusted with a woman who wants to have sex with her own husband! The shock! What a trollop! :rolleyes:
I loved this bit:
Noooooo…I’d imagine it’s not a good idea to discuss the babysitter in the middle of sex. Brad has a good sense of self-preservation.
Hmm, do you think she’s trying to tell him something about the babysitter?
Or the Google ads, dating for cheaters and Russian mail order brides :rolleyes:
Would you want to have sex with somebody that has the flu, snot all over the place, etc?
Wouldn’t be the first time.
At first, I was dismayed to read that her husband turned down her initial offer, but then, it made sense.
Who’s good to go every single day of the year? Three hundred sixty five days in a row? I’m lucky if I get four good days in a row! I mean, there’s colds, the flu, genuine headaches, and other physical illness, there’s scheduling problems, privacy issues, and all other sorts of interruptions. I can see where he was reluctant to accept her offer, because he didn’t want her to do it out of obligation.
But the commitment to provide that to your spouse? Wow. And I loved her description of how they became more thoughtful to one another. I really admired her self-honesty in recognizing that she had rejected her husband and not been there for him, and that she made up for it.
Are these the same people that wrote the book? Our paper had a review last week of two books that have recently come out about the couples’ experiences having sex every day for a year.
It strikes me as a nice idea that just wasn’t thought through at all. Stating that she’d have sex with him for the next 365 days isn’t just an offer, it’s also a demand (well, unless she was just going to let him lie on his back). It also smacks of using sex as some kind of currency or commodity.
Yeah, how the hell is a wife having sex with her husband considered a gift?
The way I’ve heard about/experienced it, is that if you’re stressed, tired, and pre-occupied, sex is not a re-charging, spontaneous, fun event. It feels good, but sleep or watching a TV or just zoning out feels even better and requires less effort.
Once the reserve tanks are topped off, though, sex returns to being zippy and happy. I think a lot of men don’t get that and end up feeling rejected and unwanted. I’ve certainly heard complaints along those lines.
I know! Honestly, I thought we were over that sort of silliness. The whole down on sex attitude was supposed to be, at most, for pre-marital sex. Once you’re married, you’re supposed to be able to swing from the chandeliers with society’s approval. I suspect those comments say a lot more about their writers than they do about the people in the article.
That makes sense. I suppose you could get to see it as a chore at times.
Yes. Really, you’d think she was offering sex to other people’s husbands, not her own.
It seems like it brought them much closer and helped their marriage, even if they didn’t quite end up knocking boots every day. I think something like this, or something in this spirit, might be good for a lot of people’s marriages, but what do I know?