M. & W.

We are a committed, loving couple in a passionate relationship that keeps getting better and better. We have been together seven years, and married almost four years. Both of us have been married before.We have recently started a Web site to share what we've learned -- from our own experiences and from friends we know -- about achieving and maintaining a loving and passionate sexual relationship. We have a normal life, with the usual concerns and stresses -- kids, money, jobs, etc. Yet through some very difficult times, we've been able to have a fulfilling sexual relationship that has helped keep us emotionally close as well. We have found that the emotional and sexual aspects of our relationship feed off each other, both enhancing and benefiting from the other.Yet many of our friends seem to struggle with sexual satisfaction and openness. Either one partner is unfulfilled, or the sex becomes routine and unpassionate. In some cases, sex is a source of conflict; in others, sex is the conflict that masks underlying tensions. And we have both been in previous marriages that were neither emotionally or sexually satisfying, and have experienced those frustrations first-hand.