by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 11, 2022 | Faith, Life
On the a vacation we took just over a decade ago, I started knitting a blanket. It was what knitters call a “sock yarn blanket”, meaning that it’s made from all the ends of balls you have after you’ve finished a pair of socks. For twenty years...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 8, 2022 | Abuse, Preparing for Marriage, Theology of Marriage and Sex
Can we talk about how our messages about a woman’s role can actually undermine her safety? Just a quick catch-up for today’s post! I want to share a few things I’ve seen on social media and then throw this open for discussion. I’m taking a bit...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 7, 2022 | Abuse, Marriage, Podcasts, Resolving Conflict
Unconditional respect isn’t a thing. And yet we’re often told that men need unconditional respect, just like women need unconditional love. It’s summertime, so I’m taking a month off of recording new podcasts, and instead I’m going to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 6, 2022 | Marriage, Preparing for Marriage, Resolving Conflict
Lots of people believe a lot of dumb things about marriage! I’m in the middle of moving our site to our new Bare Marriage domain (we should be up and running by the end of the month!), and we’re only taking posts from 2018 and forward with us, leaving over...
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...
