Marriage Archives - To Love, Honor and Vacuum

The 5 Love Styles and the Attachment Styles Dance

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...

ATTACHMENT SERIES: The 4 Attachment Styles and What They Mean

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...

$The Math of Love and Respect$

The Math of Love and Respect

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...

Who is Safer to Date: Christian Men or Secular Men?

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...

These Books Would Have Changed Our Lives

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...

PODCAST: What Are We Not Telling Couples About Waiting for the Wedding for Sex?

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...

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About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.