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 three years, we got to 1,000,000 downloads, with 500,000 of them being in 2021. Well, in 2022 we reached 900,000 alone! So...
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 with people the most that I wrote last year. What posts had the highest traffic, the most comments? This was a big year...
We've finally made the move, and To Love, Honor and Vacuum is now rebranded Bare Marriage! Connor has been working on this for a few months now, and it turned into a much bigger job than we anticipated. I started To Love, Honor and Vacuum back in 2008. I started out...
Science often makes leaps and bounds by disproving previous assumptions and hypotheses. Galileo turned the world upside down (literally) by positing that the world wasn't flat; that it was round and revolved around the sun. For centuries Newton's theories were the...
Do marriages need someone to be in charge? And what does it mean if you assume that they do? Last week Alistair Begg, a big speaker and theologian, posted this on social media:I could say so much about what's theologically wrong with this statement, but I'd encourage...
Like you, I'm heartbroken by the Josh Duggar case, and by the continued support for him from his wife. I noticed something that I shared on social media yesterday, and I thought it was worth a super quick post because I'm curious what my commenters think (and there...
On Fridays I like to take a look at what's been happening on social media this week, because often most of the writing/thoughts end up on Facebook or Instagram, and if you mostly read the blog you may miss them. So let's go: Let's talk Kissing Before Marriage! I...
Yesterday I had the great privilege of speaking at Colorado Christian University's Chapel.. It was my first post-COVID (since COVID? COVID's not really over) speaking engagement in person. I've done several via Zoom--some MOPS groups, a counseling group, several...
Has anyone noticed that the math in Love & Respect for how many people the book applies to doesn't add up? Joanna and her family are on their way down from the Arctic today to stay at my house for a week. They're moving to Edmonton (it's funny to think of Edmonton...
Baptist News covered The Great Sex Rescue--and had a great interview with a pastor! One of our frustrations with publicity for The Great Sex Rescue is that mainstream American Christian outlets (magazines, websites, radio shows, etc.) won't cover it. In other...
Everyday I get more questions about our survey, and about our data, and what we'll be studying next! I thought I'd try to answer that today in one central place. We've done the largest and most comprehensive studies of marriage and sex on evangelical populations, and...
The "Obligation Sex Message" is toxic. The idea that a woman is obligated to have sex with her husband when he wants it was the most toxic belief that we measured in our survey of 20,000 women for The Great Sex Rescue--and our survey of men. On Tuesdays I don't write...
As we're wrapping up the sexual confidence series today, I've been thinking about what the main message is that I want people to take away. For the last two months we've been talking about sexual confidence--what it is; what it's not; how to feel confident if you're...
Rebecca's postpartum! So we thought it was the perfect time to look at the postpartum advice given in evangelical circles to women. We found in our survey that sex lives can start to go off course with the way that sex is handled postpartum. Many people don't recover...
If you've read The Great Sex Rescue, it may have opened your eyes to so much that's holding you back. But where do you go from here?Sheila here! Today Dr. Camden Morgante, a clinical psychologist and good friend, is joining us to suggest next steps after reading The...