The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido: A Couple's Guide

Author (The Divorce Remedy), therapist and Oprah regular Davis offers a frank and reassuring guide for couples struggling with the ""desire doldrums."" It's been estimated that one-third of couples face issues of low desire, the impact of which is felt beyond the bedroom: ""Unsatisfying sexual relationships,"" Davis writes, ""are the all-too-frequent causes of alienation, infidelity and divorce."" Unfortunately, libidos are rarely equal; most marriages have a low-desire spouse and a high-desire spouse. Davis offers advice for both, bolstered by numerous examples of how that advice has worked for couples she's encountered during her two decades as a marriage counselor. Court your partner the way he or she wants to be courted, Davis tells high-desire spouses; for low-desire spouses, sometimes the best idea is (to borrow a line from Nike) to ""just do it."" Her ""field-tested"" tips are sensible rather than earth-shattering-talk openly, be kind, commit to making a change for the better and set concrete, attainable goals-but in the hard-to-talk-about realm of sex, very welcome indeed.