Laura M. Brotherson
MS, MFT
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Marriage, Sex & Intimacy Expert
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BIO
Marriage and intimacy expert, Laura M. Brotherson, MS, MFT is the founder of The Marital Intimacy Institute, and author of a best-selling book on sexual intimacy and marital ONEness entitled, And They Were Not Ashamed — Strengthening Marriage through Sexual Fulfillment.
Laura is also the host of a weekly podcast – "The Marital Intimacy Show" on The Women's Information Network (The WIN).
As a marriage and family counselor and sex therapist, Laura does her clinical work at Cherry Lane Counseling in the Boise, Idaho area. Laura has been trained at the Institute for Sexual Wholeness (ISW) as a Christian sex therapist.
Laura shares her passion for building strong marriages and families as an author, marriage and intimacy educator, blogger, show host, and relationship consultant. She writes for multiple online magazines, publishes an electronic newsletter "Straight Talk about Strengthening Marriage" and a marriage blog, and speaks in various venues from couples' cruises and conferences to television and radio shows.
Laura's mission is to provide a trusted resource for education, products and services to strengthen marriages…intimately! ...available at www.StrengtheningMarriage.com
Laura and her husband are the parents of three children, and have been married over 20 years. You can learn more by visiting her website www.StrengtheningMarriage.com.
Laura's Websites:
StrengtheningMarriage.com
TheMaritalIntimacyShow.com
CherryLaneCounseling.com
Social Media:
Facebook -- Strengthening Marriage, Inc. http://www.facebook.com/StrengtheningMarriage
Facebook -- The Marital Intimacy Show -- http://www.facebook.com/MaritalIntimacyShow
Twitter -- http://twitter.com/LauraBrotherson
Twitter -- http://twitter.com/MaritalIntimacy
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The Twilight Obsession and Its Effect on Marriages
The Twilight Fervor The Twilight fervor seems to be heating up again with the release of the next movie in the Twilight saga. What isn't being talked about though is its potentially negative effects on relationships. After seeing this disturbing Twilight parody music video, and hearing about "Twilight Moms" and such on Oprah, it seemed necessary to comment on the Twilight phenomenon, and it's detrimental effects on marriages.
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Sex Is Easy-Lovemaking Takes Effort
The mechanics of “having sex” are fairly simple, but really “making love” and developing a good intimate relationship takes some time and effort. Movies, pornography and other media tell us that sex is–or should be–easy, which is a set up for problems in a real relationship. For those who have ingested pornography, it’s difficult to have a healthy and accurate perspective of sexuality, and to separate fantasy from reality. Pornography–The Sex Mis-educator
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Date Night is Not Optional
A while back a guy friend came up to me at church and said he had some receipts for me to reimburse. I looked at him like “What are you talking about?” and he said, “You know…babysitting receipts. You said you’d cover the babysitting if I’d start taking my wife out on dates.” I laughed and said “Okay. Sure.”
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Six Tips To Strengthen Your Marriage Sexually
Sexual intimacy is as important for the health and vitality of the marriage relationship as is emotional closeness and spiritual connection. Sexual nourishment that feeds both husband and wife is the dessert of married life. Strengthening your marriage intimately--emotionally, spiritually and sexually--is one of the most important efforts in which you can put your time and energy. So-called desire discrepancies between husband and wife can be a thing of the past, as couples come to understand the intricacies of intimacy and mutual sexual fulfillment.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Laura M. Brotherson
- "Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!" (~Laura M. Brotherson)
- "Marriage's 'polishing process' uses each spouse as the abrasive to finish the other's development" (~David Schnarch)
- “I don’t think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them” (~Carol Matthau)
- "Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage" (~Diane Sollee, SmartMarriages.com)
- "Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one" (~Chuck Eddy, The Village Voice)
- "When my grandma got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love" (~Rebecca - age 8)
- "Both men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives when they are married. Unmarried co-habitation doesn't cut it. Cohabitation does not bring the benefits--in physical health, wealth, and emotional wellbeing--that marriage does. And, married people have both more and better sex than do their unmarried counterparts" (~Linda Waite, The Case for Marriage)
- "Desire is a decision. You have to put sex on the 'to do' list" (~Michele Weiner Davis, DivorceBusting.com)
- "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others" (~Jacob M. Braude)