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Who Believed the Obligation Sex Message More in Your Marriage?
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...
You Matter: Is the Pendulum Swinging Too Hard Towards Women?
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...
The “Sexual Favors” Postpartum Podcast: Can We Please Stop Being Selfish?
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...
Next Steps after Reading The Great Sex Rescue
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...
PODCAST: Do Authors Secretly Fear Women Just Don’t Like Sex?
What if the reason authors can't give up the obligation sex message is that they fear women won't have sex otherwise? It's time for another edition of the Bare Marriage podcast! (And we filmed this before Rebecca gave birth; she's being induced as we speak, so that's...
On Elisabeth Elliot’s Terrible Courtship–and Dating Men “Sold Out for Jesus”
Elisabeth Elliot's book Passion and Purity is NOT a love story. These last few weeks I've been reading the big books marketed to young women in the evangelical world for research for our mother-daughter book, and one of those was Passion & Purity. I read it first...
Can Christians Use Sex Toys?
Today I want to revisit a rather controversial topic. Except "want" is really not the right word. I'd love to run as far away from this one as possible. But I keep being asked about sex toys, and I haven't written about them in a long time, and my thinking has evolved...
On Magpies, Jogging, and Listening to Podcasts
So I'm supposed to have a podcast out today! And I'm going to tell you a little bit of a story to give you three reasons why I don't. But don't worry--I'll give you some other stuff to listen to! Here's the first reason. I'm out in Alberta right now on a speaking...
The Top 10 Searches that Land People Here: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
People land on Bare Marriage in all kinds of ways! It may be links they saw on Twitter or Facebook. It may be posts that people emailed to them. But the two most common ways are Pinterest and Google--with Google being the biggest one. And because so much of my traffic...
Can You Forgive? Are All Men Checking You Out, and More!
It's time for a new episode of the Bare Marriage podcast! I hope you all will listen, but if you don't have time, I'll have some links and rabbit trails below so you can read all you want as well! Remember--to access all of the podcasts, you can click on "Podcast" on...
A Limo and a Super Fun Trip Down Memory Lane
My mom firmly believes in creating memories by giving our family super fun shared experiences. She's at that age (I think I'm allowed to say that!) when she wants to be more purposeful with what she does. And she decided this year, for her 75th birthday, that what she...
How Do You Know if You’re in an Abusive Marriage?
How do you know if you're being abused? One of the hardest parts of blogging is reading so many heartbreaking emails and comments that come in from people in truly destructive marriages. I find myself wondering, why do people treat each other this way? And even more...