by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 31, 2022 | Connecting, Family, Marriage
If you know you have an unhealthy attachment style, how can you grow and change? It’s the last day in May, and so I want to wrap up our posts about attachment styles. I’m so glad so many of you have found this concept helpful; it’s really changed how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 11, 2022 | Connecting, Preparing for Marriage, Research, Spiritual Intimacy
Our attachment style that we learn in childhood affects our “love styles” as adults. I’m a big fan of the book How We Love by Milan and Kay Yerkovich. It’s one of the few Christian marriage books that I can recommend wholeheartedly. How We...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 2, 2020 | Marriage
Do you ever feel like a doormat in your marriage? You want so badly to connect with your spouse, but whatever you do, your spouse just doesn’t connect back with you. Yesterday I shared an email from a woman who felt like she never talked with her husband and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 11, 2020 | Parenting Young Kids
My girls were both far more emotionally mature on their wedding day than I was on mine. And their husbands were both more emotionally mature than Keith was, too! Keith and I were just so young, in so many ways (though my daughters were both technically younger than I...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 10, 2020 | Marriage
Is it wrong to have expectations in marriage? We’ve been talking about emotional maturity this month, and yesterday, as I was writing about how to have a conversation when a spouse is stonewalling, it reminded me of a post I wrote a while back about how...