Wa `alaykum as-salamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

 

Marriage is a relationship of tranquility, love and mercy as mentioned in the Quran. Any wife that truly loves her husband would love to enjoy intimate relationship with him, it is a natural thing.

 

A husband should always consider his wife’s ability to be for him ready intimately. She might be tired or ill or had a real bad mood and intimate relationship should not be just a biological intercourse but rather two souls enjoying the best of their desires in a halal way. Also the husband should be responsive to the wife’s need if she desires it as it happens from both sides.

 

I must say too that a woman should not abuse her husband by refusing to allow him have intimate relationship with her! When a woman gets married it is called a Nikah contract which literally means allowing the husband for such right.

 

On the same note, a husband cannot abuse his wife by ignoring her for days and weeks without intercourse. If a man does that to his wife for a period over 4 months, she can take her case to the court and seek divorce.

 

In such cases like that it is best to seek counseling between the couples because most of the times it has to do with issues of problems between the husband and wife.

 

Almighty Allah knows best.