Every month on the blog, I like to focus on a particular topic.
It doesn’t mean that every post in that month has to do with that topic, but often I have more to say on something than just one post will allow, and so I dedicate a month to go more in-depth.
In August, we’ve been talking about periods! But I’ve also tackled emotional labor, MBTI personalities, birth control, submission in marriage, and so much more.
I know some of you have joined the blog only relatively recently, and so you may not have had time to delve into some of the series that I’ve done in the past. Since there’s an extra Monday in August, I thought I’d post my most recent series, so that you all can peruse and catch up if there’s a topic you’ve missed. And the other posts in each series should be listed at the bottom of these posts, too.
Have fun!

5 Strategies If You’re Married to an Entitled Spouse
What do you practically do about entitlement in marriage? We’re at the end of our entitlement series, and all month we’ve been looking at how...

Have We Created a “Yes Space” for Men in the Church?
When my eldest was thirteen months old, my parenting research brought me across the concept of a “yes space.” A “yes space” is an area of the house...

PODCAST: Bring Back Vanilla Sex
What's Wrong with Vanilla Sex? Valentine's Day is coming up just around the corner, and that means that we're going to start to see lots and lots of...

Is Holding Men to a High Standard “Man-Bashing”?
Shelia here! My husband Keith wanted to come on here and talk about the remarks of "man-bashing" that have shown up in the comments recently. Here...

You Deserve a Grown-Up Spouse: Let’s Talk Weaponized Incompetence
What if a lot of entitlement comes from a desire to not have to grow up? It’s Rebecca on the blog today, and I’m expanding on what I sent in a...
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How Emerson Eggerichs Misuses Scripture in Love & Respect
Emerson Eggerichs does not handle Scripture appropriately in Love & Respect. So many people defend the book Love & Respect, saying that it...

PODCAST: How Emerson Eggerichs MIsuses Scripture, feat. Nijay Gupta
It is not just that the book Love & Respect contains toxic teachings. It is also that the book doesn't handle the Bible properly, twisting...

A Summary of the Issues with Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs (with Download)
Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs is a best-selling, but problematic, book. Love & Respect is the most-used marriage curriculum in North...

The Double Standards of Sexual Expectations in Marriage
We need to deal with our double standards of sexual expectations in marriage. This month we're looking at entitlement in marriage, and how the...

It’s Not Idolatry to Expect Connection with Your Spouse
When we marry, it's because we want to be with someone for the rest of our lives. We enjoy being with them. We love them. We want that relationship....

Podcast: It’s Okay to Trust Your Emotions!
If the heart is wicked and deceitful above all things, then aren't emotions bad and not to be trusted? So often in evangelical circles we've been...

Expectations in Marriage: 4 Things You Should Expect from Your Spouse
Is it wrong to have expectations in marriage? We've been talking about entitlement in marriage, and on Monday I wrote about the difference between...

How NOT to Be an Entitled Husband or Entitled Wife
What is it that actually kills a marriage? In the Christian world, “lack of commitment” is often named as the culprit that brings a marriage to an...

Why Is a Christian Book Trying to Coerce Wives into Sending Nude Photos?
Christian leaders should not be trying to convince women to send nude photos. This doesn't seem like it should even have to be said, but earlier...

PODCAST: The Strike at Putney, and What Would Happen if Women Just Stopped?
It's a new year of podcasts--and Lucy Maud Montgomery joins us for the first one! In her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood, Beth Allison Barr...

Top Bare Marriage Podcasts of 2022–and Where We’re Headed in 2023!
2022 has been a crazy year at Bare Marriage! We ended 2021--on December 31 no less--hitting 1,000,000 downloads of the podcast overall. So after...

Top 10 Posts of 2022 on Bare Marriage!
A new year has begun--so let's look over what was biggest on the blog in 2022! At the start of every year I like to look back and see what resonated...

The Christmas Podcast Where We’re Not Spiritually Homeless anymore
For the last two Decembers I've had podcasts where I talk about how I felt homeless about church. Obviously part of that was due to COVID, but even...

Why I’m Glad The Christmas Story is Messy
Sheila here! Every Friday Rebecca writes an email that goes out to our 45,000 email subscribers. (Well, sometimes it doesn't go out until Monday,...

What Does Spanking Teach Kids about How Love Should Hurt?
We simply must talk more about how spanking affects children long term. The biggest group of people who still support spanking are evangelical...

The Identifying Spiritual Abuse Podcast
Is your church a spiritually safe place? Because I've done so much research on toxic teachings within evangelicalism that have hurt people's...

What My Grandson Taught Me about How God Sees Us
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Is Staying Stuck a Choice? When your Spouse Won’t Change
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9 Ways to Help Bare Marriage This Christmas!
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PODCAST: Does God Hate Divorce? Plus the Women Carved in Ebony
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Are there any other topics you’d like me to cover? Let me know in the comments!
Sheila Wray Gregoire
Founder of Bare Marriage
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Great round up! I’m looking forward to reading these. 🙂
Since you asked what we would like to see in a series:
Getting your marriage back on track after it has been derailed by (fill in the blank, and maybe this changes depending on what derailed it)
The emotional and perspective issues for newlyweds. Sorry if this is hard to describe, but I think a lot of newlyweds, especially younger ones, start marriage with ideas like:
the wedding is a big party
your first loyalty is still to your family of origin
this is just a more permanent version of a dating relationship where God allows us to have sex
it’s okay to disagree in public or in front of the kids
if your friends and family have always given you good advice, you should continue to turn to them for advice (even if it has the effect of putting marital decisions up to a popular vote)
I would love something about how and when to give marriage advice to friends. When is it appropriate to mention if you feel like something is off and how to bring that up.
Oh, that’s a great idea for a series! About how to support marriages in your circle/community, and support people when something is really off. Maybe for December when we’re talking about family? I’ll put that in the docket!