She Doesn’t Need to Put Out. That’s Not All He Thinks About! How Our Sexuality Got Derailed

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 19, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

Today’s post is by Dorothy Littell Greco, author of Making Marriage Beautiful and Marriage in the Middle, a great book about marriage in midlife. Today she adapts an excerpt for us from Marriage  in the Middle about how faulty teaching and cultural conditioning...

6 Ways to Connect in the Middle Years of Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 22, 2019 | Sex

Can your marriage stay close in those middle years? All month we’ve been talking about the different stages of sex–how sex changes as you get older and your marriage grows. We talked about the honeymoon years, the busy years, and the glory years. This week...

10 Reasons Marriage Was Never Meant to Be a Power Struggle

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 26, 2019 | Marriage

Sometimes the way we talk about marriage makes it sound like marriage is a big power struggle. I don’t believe that this was ever what God intended, and I think there’s a much better way of looking at it. I’ve been following Natalie Hoffman now for...

How Do You Know if You’re in an Abusive Marriage?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 24, 2017 | Abuse, Bare Marriage, Resolving Conflict

How do you know if you’re being abused? One of the hardest parts of blogging is reading so many heartbreaking emails and comments that come in from people in truly destructive marriages. I find myself wondering, why do people treat each other this way? And even...

5 Tips for Surviving Marriage to a Quirky Person

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 22, 2016 | Marriage, Resolving Conflict

What do you do when you’re married to someone completely opposite to yourself? Obviously none of us marry someone who is exactly identical to ourselves. But what do you do when those differences between you and your spouse start to create a rift? Because often...