by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 11, 2022 | Emotional Connection
Our attachment style that we learn in childhood affects our “love styles” as adults. I’m a big fan of the book How We Love by Milan and Kay Yerkovich. It’s one of the few Christian marriage books that I can recommend wholeheartedly. How We...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 4, 2022 | Emotional Connection, Parenting Small Children, Series
This month we’re going to talk about attachment styles and why they matter! Attachment styles are the way that we relate to other people, and they’re based on what we learned when relating to our earliest caregivers. The field really took off in the 1950s...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 5, 2022 | Emotional Connection
Has anyone noticed that the math in Love & Respect for how many people the book applies to doesn’t add up? Joanna and her family are on their way down from the Arctic today to stay at my house for a week. They’re moving to Edmonton (it’s funny to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 22, 2022 | Preparing for Marriage
Do you feel safer in Christian spaces or non-Christian ones? That can be a hard one to answer because there are so many variables, but yesterday I set off a firestorm with my post that only 33.7% of married, evangelical men meet our four criteria for being sexually...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 15, 2022 | Preparing for Marriage
If we had had these Great Sex Guides before we got married, there would be no Great Sex Rescue. No To Love, Honor and Vacuum blog. No Bare Marriage podcast. Why? Because we wouldn’t have had years of pain that we had to untangle from, so I wouldn’t have...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 10, 2022 | Podcasts, Preparing for Marriage
We’ve got some uncomfortable truths about waiting until marriage for sex for you today! Yesterday on the blog I was talking about the increased rate of vaginismus among couples who wait for the wedding–and what we should do about that. That’s a large...