10 Ways to Get the Spark Back in Your Marriage

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 22, 2019 | Marriage, spending time together

How do you get that spark back in your marriage if you feel like you’ve lost it? How do you rekindle that excitement about being together if you feel like you’ve just become roommates? Never fear! I totally believe this can be done. I recently...

Can an Emotionally Abusive Marriage Heal?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 21, 2019 | resolving conflict

Can a marriage emerge from emotional abuse to be healed–to feel whole and intimate? Last week was a depressing week on the blog. It really was a hard slog. I took an in-depth look at the book Love & Respect, and talked about how the Love & Respect...

Your Stories of Women and Marriages Damaged from Love and Respect

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2019 | book review, resolving conflict

This has been a wild week on the blog as we have looked at Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs, one of the best selling Christian marriage books. I intended originally to write only a post about how the book approached sex, but the outcry was so immense that I...

Our Podcast: The Love and Respect Earthquake, Tidying Up, and More!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 17, 2019 | Marriage

So Love and Respect rocked the podcast this week. I was planning on continuing my series on how to live life to the fullest and get rid of time wasters, and then this week all the Love & Respect posts kind of took over. So even though I had another podcast all...

The Ultimate Flaw in the Book Love and Respect: Jesus Isn’t at the Center

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 16, 2019 | resolving conflict

This week we’ve been talking about how books like Love & Respect go so far off base. I started with showing how the view of sex in Love & Respect is very wrong. And then yesterday I showed how the concept of a wife giving a husband unconditional respect...

Love and Respect: Why Unconditional Respect Can’t Work

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 15, 2019 | book review, resolving conflict

Should you have unconditional respect for your husband, as Emerson Eggerichs claims in the book Love & Respect? I was overwhelmed by the response to my review of Love & Respect’s sex chapter yesterday. Many of you asked for my take on the whole book, and...

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