My husband’s fortieth birthday was approaching and when I mentioned to a friend that I didn’t know what to get him as a gift, she gave me Light His Fire (the marriage counseling alternative). I really got motivated and instead of my usual shirt and tie gift, I was determined to ‘knock his socks off’ as you put it. I arranged to have the same friend who gave me the book, baby-sit. On the day of his birthday, I called my husband at work and told him to come to room #431 of a nearby hotel at exactly 7:00 p.m. I arrived at the hotel early and covered the ceiling of the room with balloons and put a bottle of champagne in the ice bucket. When my husband arrived, I was waiting on the bed wearing just a pair of high heels and ribbons in every color you could think of. I had bows around my neck, streamers around my thighs, and silk cords around my ankles. I told my husband that every time he took a sip of champagne he’d get to untie one ribbon.
“My husband couldn’t believe his eyes. He commented that he thought he knew me so well that he would have bet a million dollars that I wasn’t capable of doing something like this. Well, I certainly shocked him, and myself to be quite honest. It’s fun doing something different. No more shirts and ties for my husband.”
“After I listened to the women’s CD’s, I took a good, hard look at myself,” Hannah said. “I used to have a few really sexy outfits that Brad just loved, but somehow they got replaced by much more ‘suitable’ attire for the mother of two little boys.”
“One evening, I was looking at a department store catalog. I pointed to a pretty nightgown on the lingerie page and asked Brad how he liked it. He pointed to the opposite page, where a model wore a plunging black bra, skimpy panties, and a garter belt, and said, ‘I like this one a lot more.’ I just rolled my eyes and dismissed his opinion. But later I started thinking about how I’d lost my sexuality since the boys came along.
“The next day I made my big purchase. That night, after the boys went to sleep, I took a long bubble bath and came to bed dressed in the very outfit Brad had pointed to in the catalog. He was so surprised. He kept telling me over and over how sexy I looked. And you know, I felt sexy again for the first time in a long time.”