MARRIAGE ON HARD MODE: How Gender Role Ideas Can Backfire

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 20, 2021 | Resolving Conflict

What if our underlying understanding of gender roles makes marriage harder than it needs to be? We’re talking about doing marriage on hard mode in the month of September–how so often we can make our lives harder, and thus make marriage harder, than it...

PODCAST: Are We Making Marriage Harder Than it Needs to Be?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 2, 2021 | Podcasts

Are we making marriage too hard? It’s September, and that means a new series on the blog (and on the podcast!). This month we’re going to be talking about marriage on hard mode–or rather how to AVOID hard mode in your marriage! And we thought...

The Problem with How Children’s Bibles Mess Up the Story of Adam and Eve

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 1, 2021 | Faith

Joanna, who is the mom of two littles, has had a pet peeve for years about how baby Bibles and kids’ Bibles mess up the story of Adam and Eve. I asked on Facebook last week for some pictures of how your baby/children’s Bible handled the story, and HUNDREDS...

10 Truths About Emotionally Destructive Marriages

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 24, 2021 | Abuse

How can you tell if your marriage is emotionally destructive, or if it’s just a normal level of pain? I caused a firestorm on Facebook over the weekend when I asked whether we talk too much about how “marriage is hard”, and then when people are truly...

3 Reasons Christian Teaching to Women Makes Direct Communication Sound Like a Sin

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 10, 2021 | Connecting

Do gendered teachings in the church make direct communication harder? We’re in the middle of our series on direct communication–why direct communication is hard; what direct communication looks like; why direct communication feels mean, but isn’t....