Both husbands and wives can be extremely frustrated by the differences in sexual needs and expectations between them. This frustration manifests itself as fighting, resentment, feelings of either guilt or rejection, and general marital strife. There are few safe and appropriate places to ask the questions about sex that frustrate and confuse women most. In No More Headaches, Juli Slattery provides that place with honest answers that target women’s specific needs. Her warm and compassionate style come through as she examines the underlying issues that prevent couples from having a satisfying sex life. Helping husbands and wives understand and address the sexual relationship with their spouse will improve the marriage by reducing stress and frustration in that area, which will reduce stress in other areas of marriage as well. Each chapter contains questions for reflection and questions for couples to discuss. Juli Slattery has extensive experience speaking to women about marriage, parenting, and family issues at retreats and conferences as well as on television and radio.
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"Slattery takes a comprehensive approach to reigniting sexuality, discussing gender differences, body image, and the exhaustion of having young children. Her light doses of humor and honesty pull the reader along." --Library Journal, July 2009
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Dr. Juli Slattery’s advice for wives is practical, helpful, and biblically sound. Wives who read this book will be blessed by its wisdom, and husbands whose wives read this book will be blessed by its application. (Gary Thomas, author of Sacred Marriage and Sacred Influence)
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Dr. Juli Slattery is a Christian psychologist, speaker, author, wife, and mother. She serves as an adjunct professor of marriage and family studies at the Focus on the Family Institute and as a frequent cohost of the "Focus on the Family" daily radio broadcast. Juli and her husband, Mike, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and are the parents of three boys.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read No More Headaches: Enjoying Sex and Intimacy in Marriage in a about a week, which for me as rather quickly. I found myself captured by the realness of this book and couldn't find it in myself to put it down. I think it goes to show how much women really need a book like this in dealing with the know hows of understanding sex in a God centered marriage relationship.
Author Juli Slattery has done a great job discussing the sensitive subject of sex by communicating a little more than her own hurts and frustrations. Sex is not the easiest subject to understand and talk with each other about, but in this book ways are suggested to approach it cautiously.
Through scripture and real life stories the reader is shown several different approaches in their own behavior to help heal & mend their own personal sexual relationship. You'll find issues dealing with pornography, a man's sex drive, fatigue, children, boredom, past sexual issues, your body, and more.
Sorry guys, this book is written for women, though I am sure a man could definitely learn a thing or two. Ladies, if your spouse is interested, you could go through the chapters together and talk about the various information found throughout this book. I think it's good for not only women to understand the differences of man but also for men to understand the differences of woman when it comes to sex.
I would recommend this book to married and engaged women of all ages, as I know we all could use it in handling the good, bad, and ugly relational issues that come with marriage. 5 stars!
Author Juli Slattery has done a great job discussing the sensitive subject of sex by communicating a little more than her own hurts and frustrations. Sex is not the easiest subject to understand and talk with each other about, but in this book ways are suggested to approach it cautiously.
Through scripture and real life stories the reader is shown several different approaches in their own behavior to help heal & mend their own personal sexual relationship. You'll find issues dealing with pornography, a man's sex drive, fatigue, children, boredom, past sexual issues, your body, and more.
Sorry guys, this book is written for women, though I am sure a man could definitely learn a thing or two. Ladies, if your spouse is interested, you could go through the chapters together and talk about the various information found throughout this book. I think it's good for not only women to understand the differences of man but also for men to understand the differences of woman when it comes to sex.
I would recommend this book to married and engaged women of all ages, as I know we all could use it in handling the good, bad, and ugly relational issues that come with marriage. 5 stars!
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
No More Headaches: Enjoying Sex & Intimacy in Marriage (Tyndale/Focus On The Family) would make a helpful read for a monogamous wife and mother of a couple of young kids who has been married for about 10 years. Dr. Juli Slattery tackles differences between men and women in this overview of married sexuality, coaching her readers toward a greater commitment to their mates, themselves and God.
She's frank without being salcious, and discusses desire, physiology, our past baggage, life in our hyper-sexualized society, and the effects of parenthood on intimacy in far more detail than you'd hear at church, but less detail (thank you) than you'd hear on Oprah. Slattery would affirm my own (thank you) response - she observes that younger and older women tend to have different comfort levels with discussions about sex. Younger women who have been brought up in our sex-saturated culture keep far more on the table when discussing their sex lives with their friends than we boomer women do. My own experience working with college women has confirmed this.
She does a good job connecting the physical to the emotional and spiritual, while avoiding specific prescriptions (how adventurous should a couple get?) in favor of general principles. Slattery's friendly writer's voice and lots of anecdotes from her own counseling practice make the book like a heart-to-heart conversation with a smart, wise Christian girlfriend - and a useful overview/gentle course correction for some church-going women.
She's frank without being salcious, and discusses desire, physiology, our past baggage, life in our hyper-sexualized society, and the effects of parenthood on intimacy in far more detail than you'd hear at church, but less detail (thank you) than you'd hear on Oprah. Slattery would affirm my own (thank you) response - she observes that younger and older women tend to have different comfort levels with discussions about sex. Younger women who have been brought up in our sex-saturated culture keep far more on the table when discussing their sex lives with their friends than we boomer women do. My own experience working with college women has confirmed this.
She does a good job connecting the physical to the emotional and spiritual, while avoiding specific prescriptions (how adventurous should a couple get?) in favor of general principles. Slattery's friendly writer's voice and lots of anecdotes from her own counseling practice make the book like a heart-to-heart conversation with a smart, wise Christian girlfriend - and a useful overview/gentle course correction for some church-going women.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By P. Parker
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My husband heard Juli Slattery on a radio program and suggested I get the book. I figured something which would take away all my headaches would be GREAT!!
As I looked closer I realized the book was encouraging Christian wives to claim and enjoy the intimacy which marriage only provides without guilt or embarassment.
My husband was even willing to sit with me and take turns reading this book with me. Generally it is written to women, but I felt that it helped my husband understand better how women experience sexual intimacy.
It has been educational and freeing even for us who have been married 36 years.
If you want more intimacy in your marriages women, READ THIS BOOK!!!
I'm glad we did.
As I looked closer I realized the book was encouraging Christian wives to claim and enjoy the intimacy which marriage only provides without guilt or embarassment.
My husband was even willing to sit with me and take turns reading this book with me. Generally it is written to women, but I felt that it helped my husband understand better how women experience sexual intimacy.
It has been educational and freeing even for us who have been married 36 years.
If you want more intimacy in your marriages women, READ THIS BOOK!!!
I'm glad we did.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By K Sandberg
Format:Paperback
*You Got Me What? *My Bedroom Ceiling Hasn't Changed in the Past Five Years *Is It Good to Be a Bad Girl? *Is "Sexy Mom" an Oxymoron? *A Different Kind of Headache *What Is This Creature Called "Man"? *"Try the Oysters, Dear" *I Can't Compete with That *Check Your Baggage at the Gate *Reclaiming Our Secret Garden *How's Your Love Life?
After struggling with intimacy in marriage, Juli Slattery's No More Headaches brought the reality of my circumstances full circle. God's mercy and grace brought my husband and I through some very difficult and real sexuality issues. This book, in combination with personal relationship with Christ and counseling, greatly strengthened our marriage. I laughed myself to tears as I read because much healing had already taken place for me. If I hadn't been as far along in healing as I was, I would have cried in relief that I was not alone and/or crazy! I read many excerpts aloud to my husband. We found healing through your boldness and frankness. Glory to God!
Thank You, Juli. I have four extra copies to use as resource to those I now encourage through counseling.
After struggling with intimacy in marriage, Juli Slattery's No More Headaches brought the reality of my circumstances full circle. God's mercy and grace brought my husband and I through some very difficult and real sexuality issues. This book, in combination with personal relationship with Christ and counseling, greatly strengthened our marriage. I laughed myself to tears as I read because much healing had already taken place for me. If I hadn't been as far along in healing as I was, I would have cried in relief that I was not alone and/or crazy! I read many excerpts aloud to my husband. We found healing through your boldness and frankness. Glory to God!
Thank You, Juli. I have four extra copies to use as resource to those I now encourage through counseling.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Men and women have many overlapping needs and some that are distinct to their specific gender. In "No More Headaches" Dr. Juli Slattery provides relief for couples who have been frustrated by different and sometimes unreal expectations. Dr. Slattery offers the proper diagnosis and many helpful relationship prescriptions.
This real-life-assistance handbook offers:
- Warm answers to the spiritual and emotional root-causes
- Practical application to strengthen your relationship
- Solutions that bring closer sexual and emotional intimacy
This engaging and direct volume supplies caring solutions to help lift one out of resentment and rejection and into the arms of your life-long love.
Although this book is written for women from a Christian perspective, it can help anyone who reads it. If you are single, some day you may get married, read this and start praying and preparing for your future mate now.
There Are Moral Absolutes: How to Be Absolutely Sure That Christianity Alone Supplies
This real-life-assistance handbook offers:
- Warm answers to the spiritual and emotional root-causes
- Practical application to strengthen your relationship
- Solutions that bring closer sexual and emotional intimacy
This engaging and direct volume supplies caring solutions to help lift one out of resentment and rejection and into the arms of your life-long love.
Although this book is written for women from a Christian perspective, it can help anyone who reads it. If you are single, some day you may get married, read this and start praying and preparing for your future mate now.
There Are Moral Absolutes: How to Be Absolutely Sure That Christianity Alone Supplies
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful!
Juli has really helped me understand why I have struggled with having a great sex life with my husband, and also helped me communicate with my husband about those struggles. Read more
Published 19 days ago by Jenna
5.0 out of 5 stars
Every marrried couple would benefit from reading this book
This book has contained by far the most helpful information on sex in marriage in our 17 years of marriage. I wish I had read it long ago. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Wendy Green
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful!
This book was very helpful. I appreciated the candor and the humor! Would recommend to anyone who has questions or concerns regarding intimacy in marriage.
Published 2 months ago by 2yorkiemama
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Very helpful
This book is so well written. It's easy to follow, or skip through. It helped me realize the feelings I was having are not uncommon, in fact they're so very common! Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. Little
5.0 out of 5 stars
excelant book!
easy to follow and read... helping me understand my husband... it has lead to some very good converstations with him. vcery good. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Violet R. Schulert
5.0 out of 5 stars
Required reading for every married Christian woman
Insightful thoughts into intimacy within marriage. Extremely helpful to my current struggles! I would highly recommend this book and her other books as well on this topic.
Published 4 months ago by Rachel A. Mathers
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very insightful.
This book does touch on some subjects that I think most women do not know how to talk about or are perhaps too ashamed to talk about. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Greerbug73
5.0 out of 5 stars
Informative
This was an eye opener and more so for my husband. I was able to read it aloud to him. Having the scripture references and being able to openly dialogue with my husband has made... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lorraine Maldonado
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No more headaches
More headaches is a blessinv for my marriage. After 10 years of marriage my wife and I had fallen into a rut. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dennis
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Marriage Destroyer
If a husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head to the Church and we apply her logic, then we could have a major heresy here. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Donald G. Pohlman
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