Love has no agenda …

According to a recent study, half of married/partnered women are dissatisfied with their sex life … and I’m guessing some of the other half were afraid to admit to it.

Our satisfaction — men’s and women’s — correlates with how much disparity there is between what we have and what we want. What’s not clear is what we really want versus what we’ve been programmed to want.

We can be preoccupied by what the media portrays pretty people as having, or what parents say is appropriate, or what somebody suggested was normal. And conflicting notions alone are enough to make us feel unsettled and dissatisfied.

Before marrying my first husband and having sex for the first time, I thought sex would be a spectacular, mystical experience. I imagined something, without any idea what, equivalent to fireworks, but it was years before I saw anything close. You may have thought you were alone in your disappointment, but I suspect you’re in the majority.

Our imaginations — though they lack details — are fueled by unrealistic love stories on silver screens. And it is no wonder that we choose those over the reality that we see in parents and other would-be role models.… More

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We can’t see what we’re afraid to see. We can’t feel what we’re afraid to feel. We can’t do what we’re afraid to do. We can’t be who we’re afraid to be–even if the person we’re afraid to be is our authentic self.

But we don’t have to wonder if we’re intended to be authentic. Our destiny is to choose love, rather than yield to fear. Our purpose is to reconcile our behavior with our essence of authentic love.

And when we choose to trust love and act on love, we also displace our fear.… More

Love flows both ways. If you don’t feel love coming back, you can purify your love and try again. Always.… More