I am so grateful to all of you who show up in this community, engage on this blog and on social media. I’m so grateful to those of you who listen to the podcast, send me messages, and let me know we’re making a difference! And I know that so many of you have said that...
This has been a strange week on the blog and social media, with a bunch of new male commenters flooding this space complaining about women. The complaints were prompted by two things: our continued discussion about the Psychology Today article and the fact that women...
What if there's something super simple you could do that could improve your mood and your marriage? I talked on Monday about rhythms in our lives--how to honor our bodies' rhythms, with the need for work and rest; for feasting and fasting. And I thought today we could...
What do you do when your husband hates going to the doctor--but he really needs to go? A lot of guys just hate seeing a physician. In fact, that's one of the reasons that researchers figure that married men live longer--their wives often push them to go, when...
What happens when women carry the mental load for the whole family? It can be exhausting! Last June, my series on the blog was on mental load and emotional labor, and how draining it is for women to have to remember everything and keep all details straight, and how...
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...
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...
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...
When we're trying to divide up the mental load, one of the problems we run into is agreeing on what actually needs to be done. This month we're looking at emotional labor and mental load, and we started our series last week talking about the problem of mental load and...
Mental load and emotional labor make women exhausted. We're starting our mental load and marriage series today, where every Monday in the month of June (as well as a bunch of podcasts and some extra posts) we'll be focusing on how to balance the mental load and grow a...
Does motherhood sound like the most exhausting job in the world? We're gearing up for Rebecca to deliver really soon, so we've been thinking a lot as a family about modern motherhood lately. And at the same time, the news is constantly filled with the dropping birth...
We need to find a way to talk about health that isn't all-or-nothing. But so often when we hear advice on how to get healthy it requires a complete overhaul of everything in our lives overnight. I think most of us would agree that yes, in an ideal world we would all...
With the school year starting up again, I started thinking about something I'm very passionate about: some families are just too busy. This month, on Wednesdays, we're looking at how LIFE can take away our enjoyment of marriage and sex, and to lead up to Wednesday's...
Ever feel like your spouse is stressed all the time--and because of that they're always short with you? On Mondays I like to post a reader question and then take a stab at answering it, and today I've got one from a woman who says that when they go on vacation the sex...
Do you have a vision for your family? You may have an idea of what your ideal family would look like with the perfect house and the fluffy dog, but do you truly have a vision for your family's purpose? This month, on Wednesdays, I've been wanting to give you some...