Pastors: Watch How You Talk about Marriage, Because You Could Be Hurting Your Congregants

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 5, 2021 | Faith

In marriage, should husbands make the final decision if the couple can’t reach agreement? Many Christians would say yes. In fact, in our recent survey of 20,000 women for our new book The Great Sex Rescue, 39.4% agreed with that statement. Many Christians who...

God Language and Emotional Maturity Part 2: There’s a Commandment for That!

by Joanna Sawatsky | Nov 24, 2020 | Faith

We’ve been talking a lot on the blog about emotional maturity and its importance. And part of that is the whole “God language” issue. It’s Joanna on the blog today! Joanna is my intrepid stats person and co-author of The Great Sex Rescue, who is busy helping me...

Do We Use God Language to Enable Emotional Immaturity?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 6, 2020 | Faith

As Christians, we can sometimes use Scriptures to justify emotional immaturity. And that’s awful. We’ve been talking about emotional maturity this week, as we’re launching our emotional maturity series. On Tuesday I started off talking about four...

Is Having the Husband Make the Final Decision a Harmful Shortcut in Your Marriage?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 31, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

When we give husbands veto power, do we end up damaging intimacy? Often the best conversations on this blog don’t happen in the posts themselves, but in the comments. And today I wanted to share a comment that came in on one of Keith’s earlier “men’s corner” posts...

Can We Talk about Mutual Respect?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 31, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

If you’re reading this as it’s being published, Keith and I are getting on a cruise ship in Buenos Aires to head to Antarctica! But a lot of interesting things happened this week, and I wanted to chime in while I still have good wifi. The theme of all of...