Emotional Connection 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...

PODCAST: It’s Time to Jump Out of the Boiling Water

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 27, 2022 | Emotional Connection, Podcasts

At what point do we realize that something is terribly off with the way the evangelical church sees women? Today, on the Start Your Engines men’s focus of the podcast for the last Thursday of the month, Keith talks about his manifesto from yesterday and...

Does a “Christian” Marriage Need to Suffer to Grow?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2022 | Emotional Connection, Theology of Marriage and Sex

Have you ever thought about how much Jesus must have laughed? And should that make a difference for how we see marriage? On Tuesdays I like to post something super quick rather than write a long post, and I’ve been listening through older episodes of the podcast...

On My 30th Anniversary: My Husband Is a Good Man

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 21, 2021 | Emotional Connection

Thirty years ago I made the best decision of my life–but I really didn’t understand that at the time. I don’t know how a 21-year-old can truly realize how important the choice of mate is. It’s so easy to think that love is all you...

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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.