Is It Abuse? How do You Accept that You’re in an Abusive Marriage?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 27, 2023 | Abuse

Are Obligation Sex and Marital Rape the Same Thing?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 18, 2023 | Abuse

Is all obligation sex necessarily rape? As we’ve been talking about obligation sex this month, starting with 10 things you need to know about obligation sex, and how obligation sex affects a woman’s body, there’s a conversation that keeps coming up on social media:...

The Podcast Where a Church Puts a Marital Rape Victim Under Church Discipline

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 16, 2023 | Abuse, Podcasts

Today I want to tell you the story of a woman who was the victim of marital rape–and what her church did to her. She’s an amazing woman. She reached out to me after our posts on marital rape back in November, in the middle of our series about getting out...

How Do You get Your Husband To Understand That He Coerced You Into Sex?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 28, 2022 | Abuse

If your  husband has been coercing you into sex, how do you get him to understand what he’s done? That’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? We’re in the middle of a series on what to do if one, or both, of you have dug your sex life into a...

When You Realize You’ve Coerced Your Wife Into Sex: 5 Next Steps

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 22, 2022 | Abuse, Men's Corner

What do you do if your wife tells you that she feels as if she has been raped? Or, if she doesn’t use those exact words, if she tells you that she feels as if she’s been coerced into sex? We’ve been talking this month about digging out of the pit...