Is Having the Husband Make the Final Decision a Harmful Shortcut in Your Marriage?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 31, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

When we give husbands veto power, do we end up damaging intimacy? Often the best conversations on this blog don’t happen in the posts themselves, but in the comments. And today I wanted to share a comment that came in on one of Keith’s earlier...

My Husband Doesn’t Want to Use Birth Control

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 24, 2020 | Resolving Conflict

What do you do when you don’t want to get pregnant, but your husband doesn’t want birth control? We’ve been tackling difficult sex questions all month, and here’s one I tackled a while ago, but I still get asked quite a bit. I thought it was...

Has My Sexual Past Doomed My Marriage?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 17, 2020 | Preparing for Marriage

If you’ve been promiscuous in the past, is your future marriage doomed? We’re in the middle of our Sex Questions You Can’t Ask Your Pastor series this month, and this week we’ve been focusing on newlywed sex questions–including our...

10 Quick Newlywed Sex Questions You Can’t Ask Your Pastor

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 13, 2020 | Making Sex Feel Good, Preparing for Marriage

Engaged women and newlyweds often have a lot of questions about sex! What will it feel like? Will it hurt? How do we make it feel good? This month, in the Mondays in July, we’re talking about sex questions you can’t ask your pastor (and in our podcasts,...

Learning to Let Your Husband Serve You

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 23, 2020 | Emotional Connection

Do you have a hard time letting your husband do things for you? All month we’ve been talking about mental load and emotional labor, and how much many women feel overburdened by bearing too much of the load. But there is another side of this: some women have a...

PODCAST EXTRAS: Is It Man-Bashing to Assume Men Can Take on Emotional Labor?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 18, 2020 | Homemaking, Podcasts, Resolving Conflict

If we say that it’s okay to expect that men will want to be engaged at home, and will want to share the mental load, are we man-bashing? We’ve been talking all month about emotional labor and mental load–or just how overburdened many women feel when...

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