What happens if church is the place of your greatest hurt? We're in our deconstruction series on the podcast, looking at different people's stories of deconstruction, and trying to honor all of them. What I really want to do is have people hear WHY people...
What's it like when your family starts out normal, but grows fundamentalist? Today on the podcast we're interviewing Cait West, the author of just a beautiful memoir, Rift. She talks about what it's like to grow up in a Christian patriarchal family, where her father...
Why do people deconstruct and become exvangelicals? Today on the Bare Marriage podcast author Sarah McCammon, an NPR journalist, joins us to talk about her experience with deconstruction, and what she learned interviewing so many people for her new book explaining the...
What if someone you love is about to make a bad marriage choice? Or what if your girlfriend/boyfriend isn't treating your relationships or your issues seriously? We're tackling two complicated reader questions on the podcast today! Listen in:Listen to the Podcast...
It's the last Thursday of the month, so it's time for our Start Your Engines podcast, directed towards men (and their wives, of course!) And today we're talking all about flirting. So first, listen in!Listen to the Podcast HereBrowse all the Different PodcastsListen...
What if you find oral sex or manual sex difficult because it causes muscle spasms? We talk about all kinds of weird stuff in our podcasts, and this one came up in some discussions earlier in the week on sex during your period. So we thought it was worth tackling!...
If a woman isn't enjoying sex, is the husband to blame? We received a comment recently from a woman whose husband has been listening to our Start Your Engines men's podcasts, where we've been talking about the importance of foreplay. And he was becoming sad, because...
Why are periods so often associated with shame? It's time for our podcast post, and today's podcast features Rebecca and me jumping around all the topics we're going to cover about periods this month (well, just about all!). We opened our series on Monday and Tuesday...
What happens when a couple gets married, and sex doesn't work well for her? Well, I'll tell you what often happens. The couple assumes that she doesn't like sex. That she doesn't enjoy sex. That she's just not sexual. And she feels broken, and he feels rejected, and...
What happens when you've got a problem with sex--but it's just so convoluted and messy? We've been talking all month about sex questions you can't ask your pastor, and our podcasts have focused on a ton of sex questions, including newlywed ones! But this week I want...
This week on our podcast is all newlywed sex questions! Welcome to episode 65 of our Bare Marriage podcast--and the third podcast that is also up on YouTube! So you can watch & listen or just listen! We're in the middle of our Sex Questions You Can't Ask Your...
Have more sex questions you can't ask your pastor? It's podcast day--and in the month of July I'm tackling all kinds of awkward sex questions! (And don't forget my webinar TONIGHT at 9 pm EST! Your ticket to the webinar covers not just me answering a ton of questions,...
Do you have questions about sex that are super awkward? Or even just non-awkward ones, but you don't know where to ask them? That's likely why you're on this blog! Well, in the month of July, our series is exactly that: Sex Questions You Can't Ask Your Pastor. I'll...
What if you want to redistribute the mental load and emotional labor in your household--but your husband's not on board? We've been talking about emotional labor all month on the blog, and we've got a lot more coming! And today on the podcast we want to continue the...
Emotional labor and mental load take their toll on a marriage--because they often exhaust the wife. So many women experience this, and yet we don't really have a name for it. We know something is wrong, we feel guilty because we dream of getting away for just a day,...