When Your Wedding Night Is Your First Time

Laura Hardin says after years of knowing each other, she and her husband Adam Hardin were excited to have sex. But there was some trial and error

Clare Fieseler for NPR

Now that they’re married, Laura and Adam Hardin clearly have figured it out: their two toddlers were pattering around upstairs in their modest home in a Washington, D.C., suburb when NPR visited recently. And Laura’s belly was bulging with their third baby — a daughter born last week.

But Adam remembers some anxious moments on their honeymoon almost five years ago — the first time either of them had sex.

“Mostly I think I was concerned with, like, not wanting to hurt her,” he says.