Last week, I gave y’all five more Christmas gift ideas for the hubbies. This week, let’s talk about what hubbies can get the wives. Again, remembering that my subject matter is usually the marriage bed.
I haven’t done nearly as many posts with ideas for wives, but here’s a previous one for Christmas: What Does Your Wife Want for Christmas? And from Valentine’s posts: here and here. Here are my five more ideas:
1. Making Love Potions.
How about some home recipes for foods and oils that could enhance your sexual intimacy? Making Love Potions has wonderful illustrations, inspiring quotations (including a couple from the Bible, but other sources as well), and instructions for making aromatic drinks for stimulating mood, to sensual massage oils, to natural personal lubricants. If your wife enjoys cooking or being crafty, this could be a great choice for her to use her interests and skills in ways that benefit your marriage bed.
P.S. You men can also make these recipes, of course.
2. Aphrodisiac oils and perfumes.
Good Clean Love — and other companies, I’m sure — have a line of aphrodisiac products that includes essential oils, perfumes, and personal lubricant. Our sense of smell is definitely connected to the emotion center in our brain, and it’s this insight that has caused aromatherapy to really take hold in recent years. Some wives detect a difference in how sensual they feel with the use of aromatic products like these. Maybe your wife would enjoy them as well.
3. Comfortable Sleepwear.
I’ve advocated plenty for wearing lingerie and covered the why and how of getting lingerie in my book, Hot, Holy, and Humorous: Sex in Marriage by God’s Design (which is also a great gift). But when asked in my closed Facebook group what intimacy-related gift was my favorite, I answered that my husband once bought me sleepwear that was super-comfortable, but something that he enjoyed viewing me in. A few hubbies followed up with questions about what that means.
Well, some lingerie is so uncomfortable and/or revealing that many wives don’t want to wear it. Indeed, when I look through what counts as “sexy lingerie,” some items look more like contraptions than clothing. So why not get your wife something that feels really feels good and covers her, while still being suggestive or nice to look at. Here are some ideas:
- Camisole and shorts set
- Cotton or satin chemise
- Long, single-straps nightgown (wives: wear without panties)
- Pajama set in thin or sheer cotton
- Satin nightshirt
Your best bet for finding such items is a local department store.
4. Behind Closed Doors.
When I’m not writing about Christian sex and marriage, I’m often writing fiction. While I write some other mainstream stories (under a different name), my book, Behind Closed Doors, was a labor of love in which I joined my passion for godly sex with my joy of writing fiction. The genre is basically Christian romance, but specifically covers issues of sexual intimacy in marriage. Each of the five stories deals with a different challenge in gaining or maintaining hot and holy intimacy, but none of the “lessons” are hit-you-over-the-head. They’re just stories, which I think your wife would enjoy.
5. Bedroom budget.
I admit this one isn’t necessarily cheap. However, ambiance matters to many women, yet we tend to spend money on other stuff for the house more readily than our bedrooms. What if you just handed her an envelope with money or an IOU inside with the caveat that it must be spent on sprucing up the bedroom so that it’s a place you both want to be?
Let her redecorate with better sheets, nice pillows, soft lighting, and even word art, like I have in my bedroom:
Bless her with the opportunity to make the bedroom a place she wants to be … with you, of course.
What other ideas would you add to my list?
I was looking up the oils that you mentioned, l know its getting more popular. I couldn’t find any reviews on the Good clean Love oils. How are they applied, where on the body do you apply to, l know some oils are not good on some sensitive areas. Has anyone used these particular oils. I am always looking for things for my wife as she is a low low drive lady.
I need to go find my friend Gaye from Calm.Healthy.Sexy. to answer this. Hang on…
Essential Oils for Sex and Intimacy
Essential Oils for Romance and Love: Tips from 3 Marriage Bloggers (with links to other resources)
As for Good Clean Love, they sent me some samples once, and I read up about their company. They seem committed to using safe, natural products free of parabens and petrochemicals. You can read up about them more on their website, under the Our Ingredients and the Our Science Is Sexy tabs. (And now they should totally pay me for that plug, even though I’m just saying what I’ve found.)
I have body jewelry on my wish list! Specifically body chains and jewelry for my navel piercing. My other regular gift request is bra and panty sets. It is always fun to see what he picks out!