by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 30, 2022 | Sexual Intimacy
If we want sex to be awesome, then we need to be able to feel like sex is for us too. We need to feel like we matter. Sex is supposed to be mutual, intimate, and pleasurable for both, and mutuality and intimacy means that you are both coming to the bedroom willingly,...
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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 23, 2022 | Theology of Marriage and Sex
You will never have a healthy sex life if you don’t have autonomy over your own body. You just can’t. Unless you are free to say yes or to say no, desire can’t build, because desire and obligation are at odds with each other. Just as you can’t...
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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 18, 2022 | Abuse
What does it mean to be “unwilling” to have sex? We’re in the middle of a series on the blog about how to dig out of the pit your sex life is in, when one of you, or both of you, keeps digging that pit deeper. One of the big points I was making is...
