Sheila Wray Gregoire

MARRIAGE ON HARD MODE: How Gender Role Ideas Can Backfire

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 20, 2021 | Resolving Conflict, Theology of Marriage and Sex

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...

Does it Matter Who is the Primary Breadwinner?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 17, 2021 | Doing Life Together

We’re used to thinking of the man as being the primary breadwinner in the family. But does it matter if it’s the woman? Increasingly among millennials the wife earns more than the husband. And the number of stay-at-home dads is increasing as well. My...

PODCAST: Are You Doing Sex on HARD MODE?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 16, 2021 | Podcasts, Pornography

Are you making sex harder than it needs to be in your marriage? We’re in the middle of our doing marriage on hard mode series, and today we’re talking about doing sex on hard mode! (and, yes, I know that’s a double entendre). We’ve got a...

How Do You Feel about Giving “Sexual Favors” While Postpartum/on Your Period?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 15, 2021 | Parenting Small Children, Sexual Intimacy

We’ve talked before about how telling pregnant/postpartum women they should give “hand jobs” to their husbands is just icky and wrong. It was something we felt really strongly about, and we wanted to include in The Great Sex Rescue, but it...

Why Downsizing Can Be Worth It

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 14, 2021 | Managing Money

Downsizing sounds like a failure–we didn’t live up to our dreams. Maybe we need to see it a different way! This month we’re looking at doing marriage on hard mode–are we making marriage, and life, more difficult than it needs to be? And one of...

MARRIAGE ON HARD MODE: Are You Doing Too Much Too Fast?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 13, 2021 | Emotional Connection

We do marriage on hard mode when we make life more difficult than it has to be. We’re talking about doing marriage on hard mode this month, and last week we looked at the different ways we can make marriage harder than it needs to be. Today I want to go back to...