Cycles
by Deborah Boyer
Old Wives say comfort is its own reward. Darla Garber thinks those venerable women may be confused, because lately, the only reward comfort produces in her twenty-year marriage is stale and sporadic sex. Time and familiarity have rusted their cycles of lovemaking. It used to be that they dreamed of having the house to themselves again--of having sex in the kitchen if they felt like it. Now with the kids nearly grown, can a wife who still adores her husband find the forgotten physical spark? Fearing sex-out-of-habit for the rest of their lives, Darla isn't so sure. But when her girlfriends prescribe a change of pace as just what a gorgeous animal doctor needs, Darla sets out to discover whether a little effort can set a comfortable marriage into motion, and rekindle the passion one wife desires