All articles by Margaret Ellis – Page 2

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    Confused by Same Sex Reaction

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Our Agony Aunt answers readers' questions on sex and relationships.

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    More Couples' Questions

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Maggie Ellis answers your questions on porn for women, intimacy at 50+ and keeping the sexual flame alight.

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    Couples' Questions

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Maggie Ellis tackles cross-dressing, sexual desire and being turned on by TV programmes...

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    I feel distant from my wife

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I have to travel abroad a lot with my work and my wife runs everything for the family when I am away. When I return, I am tired but have lots of romantic fantasies about seeing her again, most of which go unfulfilled...

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    He doesn't want sex

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I’ve been married for 26 years and have a unique problem in that it’s my husband that has little or no interest in sex...

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    I don’t fancy my husband

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    "What can I do to make sex more appealing?"

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    I've lost my sex drive

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I have been married for 11 years. My husband is an agnostic but I am a committed, Christian. The problem is that I have completely lost my sex drive. I’m in my 40s and finished nine months of treatment for breast cancer a year ago (including a full mastectomy and a reconstructed breast which doesn’t look like the other!). Since then I find it very hard to get enthusiastic about sex and don’t feel at all sensual...

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    I think of my ex during sex

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I’ve been married for three years and very much love my wife; however I am struggling with memories of having sex with my previous girlfriend from before I became a Christian. These memories get triggered when my wife and I make love. I feel deceptive to be keeping this a secret from my wife, but she would be devastated if she knew...

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    Can I sleep with my ex wife?

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I am a 59-year-old man who was dIvorced last year, and sInce then have struggled to contaIn my sex drIve. I am not into porn, my only sexual feelings are to my ex as we enjoyed a very good sex life. There is a school of Christian thought that says that, in the Lord’s eyes, there is no divorce spiritually and that my ex and I can sleep together. Is this biblical or is it just my imagination?

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    The Sex Factor

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Maggie Ellis answers your questions on sex and relationships...

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    Too fat to fancy

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    My wife and I haven’t been physically intimate for over a year. I can’t blame her for not wanting me as I have been putting on more and more weight over the years; I wouldn’t fancy me if I were her! When we used to make love, I would feel fat and ugly. I just want to bury my head and not think about what we have lost, but I miss her touch dreadfully...

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    Can I read Fifty Shades of Grey?

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Maggie Ellis answers a question on the suitability of erotic fiction.

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    Can I live with my friend?

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I am many years retired and have always been single. I have a close male friend who is now widowed and I am wondering what would be your opinion of us as an older couple living together [not getting married] for companionship? We do not have any sexual relationship on any level. Is this wrong for us as Christians to live together?

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    My friend is too needy

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    "We have little in common and she is one of the most irritating people I have ever encountered..."

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    Lusty mind games

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Well straight in the deep end - lust. Where do you draw the line between ‘attraction’ and lust, the unhelpful sort? I was involved with pornographic magazines many years ago, before becoming a Christian and getting married...

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    I think I'm gay

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    I am waiting for my divorce to come through from my wife of 28 years. All through my marriage, really I have known that I am attracted to men more than women. I first felt attracted to boys my own age when I was 13 years old. I’ve never had a same sex relationship and I believe that the Bible is against homo or bi-sexuality. However, after 24 years I am giving up as I can no longer cope with making love to a woman and my wife understandably can’t cope with this...

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    Help - my wife's gone off sex

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    My wife and I have been married for 26 years – but for the past 12 months we have not made love. Although we row sometimes like any couple, we still get on quite well and have four super kids aged 22, 19, and twins aged 15, but the spark in our relationship has long gone. I’ve tried being romantic – candlit dinners, flowers and boxes of chocolates – but my wife just isn’t interested in physical intimacy...

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    My husband hits me

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    My husband gets very stressed and sometimes loses it with me, though he usually says sorry the next day. He doesn’t mean to hurt me, it’s just that I say the wrong things. I aggravate him and often don’t get it right, however hard I try. He has bruised me several times before and a few times I have lost my balance on the stairs when he is shoving me, but it is only because I lose my footing because I am upset. Last week he said my spending was out of control. He was furious that I had bought a new outfit for a family wedding...

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    How do we minister to transgender people?

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Maggie Ellis answers a question on acceptance in the Church.

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    How often should we be having sex?

    2014-02-05T00:00:00Z

    "My husband says we don’t have sex as often as other people..."