i have recently got married and i would like to clarify something that has been on my mind recently during this month blessed month of ramadan. after closing my fast i return to bed, where sometimes my wife is there lying there to. sometimes i embrace her does this means my fast is void. can you enlighten me on what i can do and not do.

Praise be to
Allaah.

The Muslim has to protect his fast from things that
may invalidate it, and he has to seek reward by giving up his desires
for food, drink and intercourse, as Allaah says in the hadeeth qudsi
concerning the virtues of fasting: “He gives up his food, his drink
and his physical desires for My sake.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, al-Sawm,
1761). But if he can control himself and not slip into that which would
cause his fast to be invalidated, by the emission of maniy (semen) or
by having intercourse, or would make his fast imperfect by the emission
of madhiy (prostatic fluid), then it is permissible for him to embrace
his wife in this case, because the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to fondle ‘Aa’ishah
(may Allaah be pleased with her) but he used to control his desire. 

Shaykh
‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz said: 

A man
may kiss, embrace and touch his wife, without having intercourse, when
he is fasting. This is permissible and there is nothing wrong with it,
because the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to kiss and touch his
wives when he was fasting. But if there is the fear that he may do something
that Allaah has forbidden because his desire is aroused quickly, then
it is makrooh for him to do that. If he ejaculates he still should not
eat or drink for the rest of the day, and he has to make up the fast,
but he does not have to offer kafaarah (expiation) according to the
majority of the scholars. But madhiy (prostatic fluid) does not invalidate
the fast, according to the more correct of the two scholarly views,
because the basic principle is that the fast remains valid, and because
it is too difficult to avoid. And Allaah is the Source of strength. 

Fataawa al-Shaykh
Ibn Baaz, part 4, p. 202