By Alisa Bowman

A.K.A.

What I Learned from Not Having Sex With My Husband

I’m embarrassed to write this post. I am because it’s a post about failure. No one likes to admit they are a failure. At the same time, I’m always telling aspiring writers that readers eat up stories about failure as greedily as most people consume chocolate covered potato chips. Stories about failure make readers feel normal.

That doesn’t make them any easier to write.

But here goes. As many of you know, I pledged last week to have sex with my husband 7 days in a row. It was part of the One Extraordinary Marriage 7 Days of Sex Challenge.

This is what I learned from failing that challenge.

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