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The Sex Questions You Can’t Ask Your Pastor Podcast!
Do you have questions about sex that are super awkward? Or even just non-awkward ones, but you don't know where to ask them? That's likely why you're on this blog! Well, in the month of July, our series is exactly that: Sex Questions You Can't Ask Your Pastor. I'll...
Sex Questions You Can’t Ask Your Pastor is Coming!
Where do you go when you have questions about sex? Likely you come here! In fact, that's likely why most of you ended up here in the first place. You saw something on Pinterest about sex, or you Googled some frantic question late at night and hoped against hope that...
A Shout Out to the Great Guys Who Share Emotional Labor & Mental Load
It's the last day of our emotional labor and mental load series! We wrapped up the big teaching points yesterday talking about how important it is that both spouses get down time. And we've tackled a ton of things this month, including what mental load is; how to...
EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: Why We All Need Downtime
You can't be emotionally healthy if you don't have downtime--time when you can relax, pursue passions, or care for yourself. We're finally here--at the conclusion of our mental load/emotional labor series for the month of June! We've talked about the problem of mental...
5 Ways COVID 19 Increases Mental Load
We're finishing up our mental load series at Bare Marriage! I've got one more important thing to cover on Monday--why we all need time to ourselves--but we've covered a lot of ground this month. And I've had so many people write in and tell me: "I finally have words...
Hey, Guys: This is What Mental Load Means to Women
How can men and women work together to understand mental load--and deal with it well? It's the last Thursday of the month, which means our podcast today is aimed at men (although both men and women can listen!). And today we're capping off our mental load/emotional...
Why I Kissed “Give Me a List” Goodbye
Is it fair for husbands to just say, "Give me a list of what you want done and I'll do it?" It's Keith here today; welcome back to Men’s Corner! It has been interesting to watch people wrestle with the concept of mental load over the month. The fact that in the...
Learning to Let Your Husband Serve You
Do you have a hard time letting your husband do things for you? All month we've been talking about mental load and emotional labor, and how much many women feel overburdened by bearing too much of the load. But there is another side of this: some women have a hard...
THE EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: Why the Daily Grind Needs to Be Shared
The "daily grind" tasks are the ones that often build the most resentment in a marriage. We're in the middle of our series about mental load in marriage and sharing the emotional labor. We talked first about what those terms mean, and then showed how the book Fair...
The “Let’s Go to the Beach!” Saga: Is Your Wife Really No Fun?
When a husband has a great idea for a family outing, why does the wife often get defensive, upset, or touchy about it? We've been talking about emotional labor and mental load all month in June, and many women have said that their husbands just don't understand the...