What if our marriage advice doesn't work because we're diagnosing marriage problems wrong? This month we're starting a new series called Marriage Misdiagnosis, looking at how often our marriage advice doesn't work because we've got the wrong aims, and thus our advice...
What do you do when your husband is in the ministry and you catch him using porn? I wrote about this years ago, and wasn't planning on writing about it again, but last night I had this overwhelming urge to post this on Facebook:If you are married to someone in...
Did you know that 45,000 receive an email from me every Friday with a round-up of things from the blog and social media that week? To make sure you don't miss anything? And that email is usually written by Rebecca, with an extra insight or thought into where the...
What do you do if you have a friend who is just plain mean to her husband? On Mondays I like to take a reader question and take a stab at answering it--sometimes in a blog post and sometimes in a video. This was a great question that fits perfectly in our month on...
What do you do when your husband refuses to talk about serious marriage issues? We're talking about intimacy this month on Bare Marriage, and over the last week I've had a number of people write in about husbands who refuse to talk and refuse to engage about important...
How do you deal with a husband who is a workaholic? This month on the blog we're going to be talking about intimacy, and how to build your relationship so you feel closer. All the Wednesdays will be dedicated to different aspects of intimacy! Yesterday I started our...
How do you stay close if your spouse goes through something really tough--and seems to change because of it? With thanks to Harper Collins for sponsoring this post on behalf of the Indivisible movie. "I stopped by the English department today," Keith told me. That...
What if you just don't want to have kids with your husband? On Mondays I like to post a reader question and take a stab at answering it, and lately I've started doing that through video, with links for even more posts that you can read on the same subject! This one I...
We've been talking about submission this month, and today I want to ask a simple question: Who should we ultimately follow? I'm trying to dedicate every Wednesday in the month to one simple theme. Last month we talked about the MBTI personality inventory and marriage;...
If I were to ask you what it means to submit to your husband, what would you say? When I've asked that question at marriage groups, people hem and haw and then eventually come up with something like this: When we're disagreeing about something, the husband gets the...
What do you do when your husband is not interested in you sexually? Last week on the blog we dealt with some pretty big marriage issues--infidelity, how to talk to your kids when you're having problems, and more. This week I actually want to talk about some practical...
Infidelity really is playing with fire. When a spouse betrays you in an affair, the pain is just so real, as we've been talking about all week. I know this is a hard week for many of you to read, but I just want to take a moment today and say this: for those of you...
Is a one night stand "better" than an affair? Is it easier to get over? Every Wednesday we talk marriage, and this week on Bare Marriage we've been talking about some pretty big marriage problems, and how to move forward. I've talked a lot about how to forgive your...
How do you talk to your kids about your marriage problems? It's Rebecca here on the blog today tackling that big question: what do you tell your kid when you and your spouse just aren't getting along? We're in the middle of a week talking about how to handle big...
Why is that one step forward often means two steps back when you're trying to fix big marriage problems? This week on the blog we're going to be looking at how to tackle big things in your marriage. And one thing I've noticed is that often when you start healing,...