by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 5, 2022 | For Men, Libido, Sexual Intimacy
For every guy who has ever thought, “my wife hates sex,” or, even worse, “my wife hates ME,” I want to point you to some practical solutions. Usually I write this blog for women, but I do have a fair number of men who read it, and I get emails...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 30, 2022 | Libido, Podcasts
It’s the wrap up podcast for our What’s Killing Women’s Libido series! At the end of the month we like to record a podcast that’s a little more aimed at men, and today we thought we’d wrap up what can cause women’s libidos to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 29, 2022 | Bare Marriage, Research
Science often makes leaps and bounds by disproving previous assumptions and hypotheses. Galileo turned the world upside down (literally) by positing that the world wasn’t flat; that it was round and revolved around the sun. For centuries Newton’s theories...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 28, 2022 | Libido
Adults need bedtimes, too. Seriously. I have talked to thousands of couples over the last few years at marriage conferences and at events, and I keep hearing stories about how “we never talk”, or “we never do anything together”, or even,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 27, 2022 | Libido
For so many of us, sex is the greatest source of tension in our marriage. Now, sometimes it’s for nefarious reasons, like a husband who uses pornography (or a wife who uses pornography). Sometimes there has been major betrayal, or the marriage is just really on...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 24, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids, Sex
The harm from spanking doesn’t always come from the spanking being done in anger, or by terrible parents. Sometimes the harm comes from good parents who spanked “in love”, exactly how the church taught them to. When I wrote about the harms from...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 23, 2022 | Podcasts
Recently John Piper had a podcast telling a woman how to deal with a “harsh” husband. It was atrocious advice–especially since women in emotionally abusive relationships would listen to this advice and think that it pertained to them (since most...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 22, 2022 | Abuse, Parenting Young Kids, Sex, Sexual Intimacy
Can we talk about something hush hush? What if spanking kids is also a form of sexual assault? Hear me out on this one, okay? I’ve shared a number of social media posts and podcasts about spanking lately, including what the large meta-analysis of 160,000...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 21, 2022 | Bare Marriage, Life, Resolving Conflict
Do marriages need someone to be in charge? And what does it mean if you assume that they do? Last week Alistair Begg, a big speaker and theologian, posted this on social media: I could say so much about what’s theologically wrong with this statement, but...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 20, 2022 | Libido
Just because you have a responsive libido doesn’t mean you don’t have a libido! I make this point repeatedly in our revamped Boost Your Libido course that launches next Monday, but I really want to drive this home today: Just because you don’t have...
