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...
Most times, I post a piece celebrating moms the Friday before Mother's Day. But there are many women on this blog and in our communities who struggle with infertility, miscarriages, or infant loss. If that's your story, today I wanted to dedicate this space to you....
Do gender stereotypes help or hurt? 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! And consider this podcast "extras"....
Homemaking is hard to do well. Maybe you're someone who's really gifted at it (my youngest daughter falls into that category), but most of us find it a bit challenge. When the kids were young and I was a genuine stay at home mom, I'd often find that a...
What does it mean to be modest? What are proper modesty rules? I've been talking all month about how the message that "men lust all the time so women have to have sex to stop men from lusting" is so dangerous and unbiblical. Yet in far too many Christian marriage...
Can we appreciate the small things? I'm sitting in our RV right now, typing this. We're sitting by a small, manmade lake in Jacksonville, Florida, surrounded by a bunch of snowbirds (those are mostly Canadians and northern US retirees who come down to Florida for the...